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Associated Press: Fair Use Limits You To Four Words; Five Words Costs $12.50
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| June 17, 2008
| from the make-it-stop dept
Posted on 06/17/2008 12:33:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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Boycott AP! We don't need their steenking liberal propaganda anyway.
To: Jim Robinson
Yep. They are slowly fading into history anyways. This will just speed up the process.
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:35:58 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:37:05 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: Jim Robinson
The trouble with boycotting them is they sometimes publish stiff that calls out for a Barf Alert or lesser level of criticism and it can only be done if we quote them.
To: Jim Robinson
Once you pay them you will be bound by the full terms of the AP contract and fair use won’t apply.
To: Jim Robinson
Does the four word limit apply to the title?
If so, I can see AP make it a backroom policy to make all articles over four words so they can go after everyone who even links to articles as some sort of money making scam.
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:38:42 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:40:13 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: Jim Robinson
Is that a price per incident?
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:40:39 PM PDT
by
js1138
To: Jim Robinson
Dont feed the beast! Cancel your local newspaper subscription now!
(Thanks Jim!)
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:41:54 PM PDT
by
Niteranger68
(It would suck to be a white relative of Obama.)
To: Jim Robinson; conservatism_IS_compassion
Conservatism IS compassion (Freeper Since Feb 27, 1999)
"In the founding era, newspapers didn't have the "wire" of the Associated Press - and they were openly slanted according to the predelictions of their owners or sponsors. So they were slanted - thus, "propaganda" - but at least they were more or less frank about it. With the advent of the telegraph and (in 1848) the AP, people were alarmed at the obvious concentration of propaganda power it represented. The response to the charge of AP propaganda was - of course - a propaganda campaign. And a very familiar one it by now is. It has never changed since then; we have been told for 160 years now that journalism is "objective." The most massive and effective propaganda campaign in the history of mass communications. It stops all contrary thought almost perfectly. Reject as absurd the claim that journalism - which after all is merely the glorification of what the journalist knows that you don't know yet - is anything to make or require journalists to be intrinsically superior to nonjournalists, and you find the world makes a lot more sense. The tendency of journalists to promote socialism and socialists is simply the tendency of talkers to promote talk and denigrate action. And, germane to this particular topic, the "anthropogenic global warming" scam is simply a way to denigrate the fuel and automobile industries in particular and the public consumer of fuel (i.e., all of us) in general - all for the purpose of making the talker more important than the doer."
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:41:57 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
To: Libertarianize the GOP
It’s a moot point. It’s the AP that is in violation of US Copyright Law.
They will lose the first lawsuit, guaranteed.
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:43:20 PM PDT
by
soupcon
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To: js1138
I’ve been reading around and a lot of bloggers are finding ways around this including: Putting_underscores_between_each_word_to_claim_they_are only posting one continuous word. Puttingeverythinginmetatags so they can claim they are not posting the article but metatags of the article.
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:44:25 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: Jim Robinson
If the article poster gives the URL and posts the first four words, and each commenting FReeper posts four successive words (as a comment) is that still "fair use"?
Just checking... Actually, I go along with the "Boycott AP!" idea...
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:45:12 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
To: libstripper
Well, I’m not going to play their games. I’m going to ban AP from FR. If you want to report on something they publish you can always say, “According to the Associated Press, blah, blah, blah,” without using their titles or any actual quotes. Critiquing or reporting on published articles still falls within commonly accepted fair use standards. AP can shove their liberal propaganda and their censorship attempts where the sun don’t shine.
To: Jim Robinson
Everytime the AP puts out a biased strory, I call the editors of two local papers who don’t have DC based staff.
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:48:33 PM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
To: Jim Robinson
All I need is 3 words for AP and first word is Go.
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:49:21 PM PDT
by
AU72
To: Jim Robinson
Except....except...we boycott steenkin’ AP, and we are left with quoting steenkin’ Reuters, even more biased and puanteur AFP, est bien plus décentré. I have to say, though, the idea of spanking AP is appealing.
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:50:42 PM PDT
by
3AngelaD
(They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:52:43 PM PDT
by
rock_lobsta
(Not Your Ordinary Crustacean.)
To: Jim Robinson
They are taking a page from RIAA which tried to retroactively charge Internet radio stations for songs those stations played during the previous 6 months.
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posted on
06/17/2008 12:55:38 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
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