Posted on 09/03/2008 2:31:11 AM PDT by markomalley
On the 17th of June, our esteemed founder, JimRob, made the following statement:
Boycott AP! We don't need their steenking liberal propaganda anyway.
This statement was made in response to a new "fair use" statement made for bloggers that stated that the AP's version of 'fair use' was a five word extract and that the AP reserved editorial control over any blog entry that dared even use those five fair words.
Due to the ubiquitousness of the AP, it was not possible to simply add "ap.org" to the list of exerpt only sites; it depended largely upon the diligence of the mods and of all FReepers.
However, within the past few weeks, I have seen more and more AP articles start rearing their heads.
So I'm wondering:
FR policy question ping!
Someone will know.
prisoner6
And why is not this information not part of the ‘important stuff’ on the front page?
crAP is now postable. Excerpted.
Do you have a link where the policy has changed?
Thanks!
Thanks
AP photos should not be posted. Stories are OK as short excerpts.
prisoner6
Ok, we will lift the boycott against AP, but if you post AP material, be sure to stay within the "fair use" parameters.And the courts still have not defined fair use. Each case stands on its own.
The way I understand it, we are allowed to quote from copyrighted material for news reporting and education purposes as long as we're not adversely impacting the copyright holder's market for their product.
De nada. :o)
Re: Boycott AP! We don’t need their steenking liberal propaganda anyway.
The FoxNews website regularly uses AP news items.
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