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Posted on 06/17/2008 1:23:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
This is our Boston tea Party.
The Associated Press wants to levy a $12.50 and up license fee (aka extortion fee) on any blogger who quotes more than 4 words from one of their propaganda pieces. This is an outrageous attempt to control the blogosphere and free speech itself. To hell with their license fee and to hell with the AP. Any AP article that gets posted to FR will be jettisoned into the harbor posthaste.
Please do not post any AP material to FR excerpted or not.
Hey Jim glad to see you’re still standing strong. To think Ap and it’s writers probably get most of their stuff from here and rewrite to suit their purposes. Ungrateful b@stids
Hi Jim! Glad to “see” you...
I’m finding some conflicting info. on this and thought you might want to see this:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15888.html
On Saturday, The A.P. retreated. Jim Kennedy, vice president and strategy director of The A.P., said in an interview that the news organization had decided that its letter to the Drudge Retort was “heavy-handed” and that The A.P. was going to rethink its policies toward bloggers.
The quick about-face came, he said, because a number of well-known bloggers started criticizing its policy, claiming it would undercut the active discussion of the news that rages on sites, big and small, across the Internet.
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I still think it’s a ridiculous attempt by the AP to try and make themselves relevant. And, of course I will not post anything here from the AP in keeping with your rules. :)
So I guess we have four branches of government then?
The Legislative, Executive, Judicial and now AP?
Who gave them this power not to be offended??
I think I’m going to charge the AP every time I get offended by THEIR articles!! ugh
I work at a large office building, and one of the duties of the front desk is to stack the papers for the tenants for pickup when they come in. The AP office gets a number of issues and they are usually on top. Since I have taken over the post, the AP papers are at the bottom of the pile, requiring the AP personnel to bend down, lift about 50lbs of newsprint, and gather their copies.
The AP guy asked how come they were on the bottom, and my response was, “well someone has to be.”
Thanks.
They write nothing worth a penny.
lol thank you
LOL,
or Green Helmet guy carrying one.
LOL job well done.
The AP’s slanted headline writing alone is enough to enflame any normal human’s thought processes. Eff’em and thank you Jim.
Is this retroactive? Or does it only apply to posts from this moment forward?
I’m curious if you’ll be deleting older threads that used AP articles as its source. If so, I’ll make copies quick!
And does it apply to articles that use the AP as a source.
For instance..
What about news stations that use the AP?
Can we post material from them? What about news articles that use a mix of their own reporting, AP reporting and other reporting?
How will that work? Does it only apply to things directly from the AP?
It will be interesting to see how Drudge handles this.
This started with the Drudge Retort which is slightly different from the Drudge Report. The Retort allows postings whereas the Report doesn’t.
Here are a couple of links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
Good action, JR!
So here's our new policy on A.P. stories: they don't exist. We don't see them, we don't quote them, we don't link to them. They're banned until they abandon this new strategy, and I encourage others to do the same until they back down from these ridiculous attempts to stop the spread of information around the Internet.
Rather brave of Sean in that his boss - Rupert Murdoch - is one of the directors of AP.
I can see a ban on full articles. It negates the reason for a reader to go to their site and them getting paid by the ads. That impacts the market for the articles, so is probably infringement.
But if fair use were respected, FR simply requring that all non-free sources be excerpted (say max 25% of the article, 200 or so words) should be protection enough. We’d actually be a traffic driver, so infringement cases (could FR afford them) would probably go in our favor.
Reporting for duty.
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