Oh yeah?
Read on:
Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations [barred if damages AP reputation]
I say it's time to boycott AP!
Then AP should pay rights on any quote or words they pick up here or on any other site.
The AP doesn’t have a leg to stand on. They’re purposely going after the low-fund smaller blogs to avoid litigation, which they would clearly lose. The bigger blogs would defeat the AP in any copyright lawsuit.
And the Media Bloggers Association has absolutely no juice in negotiating anything on the behalf of the blogosphere, they simply wish to feel important, which, of course, they are not.
Ah, investigative journalism. Nobody can ever tell for whom its bell will toll. Other than to say that it usually tolls for liberals.
Regards,
Brian/snapped shot
BTT
You beat me to it.
And why anyone wants to even acknowledge their existence, and of Gannett, and PCWorld, etc, when all we’re allowed is to link to them, is beyond me. If they don’t want publicity from such a prominent site like this, let ‘em wither on the vine.
ALREADY DO boycott the AP - as much as possible.
Problems arise, though, because i also try to boycott terrorist-loving Reuters ... WaPo ... MSNBC ... the NY and LA Slimes ... the English-language service of Al-Jazeera (CNN).
You can feel silly gleaning news from Xinhua, Epoch Times, Australian Broadcasting, the Waziristan Post, you know.
So all such boycotts are “punctuated”.
However, i shall feel more supportive of AP’s intellectual property rights in a news story
... when the AP itself pays royalties to the persons whose words and actions they are exploiting for their own profit.
Tell me when THAT starts to happen, and i’ll start to take their bluster seriously.
Is it still on point to say that many citations of AP stories are NOT primarily about their content ...
but instead use the AP story as an exhibit of why we complain about the incessant propaganda posing as news
that issues from the Associated Press?
A chill wind blows. And notice even if money is paid, they can reneg on the contract if your use exposes them in ways that hurt their reputation.
That would include true exposes of their forgeries and manufacturing of “news”.
America Pravda will not tolerate criticism.
At this time; AP reports are allowed to be posted without excerpts here on Free Republic, right?
Wonder how long that will last?
AP damages their own reputation more than any of us ever could. They publish bogus/photoshopped photos, among other journalistic misdeeds, for cryin' out loud.