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We're not going to pay AP's extortion fees and we're not going to allow them to control free speech!
Recent AP vs fair use threads ^
| June 17, 2008
| Jim Robinson
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.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: achillwind; agitprop; americanpravda; antiamericanpress; ap; apbias; associatedpress; asspress; censorship; copyright; dbm; fairuse; faq; fascists; freepspeech; freespeech
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To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:25:49 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(This tagline is completely naked - STOP STARING!)
To: Jim Robinson
3
posted on
06/17/2008 1:26:13 PM PDT
by
Panzerlied
("We shall never surrender!")
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:26:53 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
(A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation, with 4 cats in my life as proof. =^..^=)
To: Jim Robinson
No great loss here. The wildly partisan “news” outlets such as AP and Reuters are helping themselves along the road to eventual extinction.
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:27:16 PM PDT
by
Blennos
(High Point, NC)
To: Jim Robinson
We’re behind you 100 percent Jim!
They are trying to control free speech.
The AP and the other Dinosaur media are trying to find ways
to keep from being scrutinized.
They’re using this and the Fairness Doctrine to try and quiet the new media.
To: reagan_fanatic
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:28:45 PM PDT
by
Skooz
(Any nation that would elect Hillary Clinton as its president has forfeited its right to exist.)
To: Jim Robinson
I will say it’ll lower my blood pressure not having AP around. They are truly on a par with al Jazeera. BTT.
To: Jim Robinson
I guess the vaunted Associated Press is above the law.
For there is already a perfectly adequete “Fair Use” law that protects from plagiarism but allows for a “fair use” of content.
This silly edict by them is going to make them more enemies than friends.
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:30:01 PM PDT
by
Fishtalk
To: Jim Robinson
OMG! Selectively enforced, I’m sure.
Roger, no AP articles.
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:32:27 PM PDT
by
AxelPaulsenJr
(300 Million People Going Bust Over High Gasoline Prices and Hussein Obama Wants to Hug Trees.)
To: Jim Robinson
BRAVO! AP = Anti-American Poop and they have always been a supporter of al-Qaeda just like CNN.
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:32:43 PM PDT
by
YOUGOTIT
(The Greatest Threat to our Security is the Royal 100 Club)
To: Jim Robinson; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:32:45 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Jim Robinson
Lets just bill them $15.00 for every article that shows up on our computer.
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:32:54 PM PDT
by
gunnedah
To: Jim Robinson
The AP is shooting themselves in the foot, here. If people are not permitted to post their pieces, nobody is going to see them.
Not many people are going to drop coins in a slot to read AP stories in a newspaper. If they want to stop the Internet so they can get off, that is their choice.
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:33:50 PM PDT
by
gridlock
( If Obama becomes "suddenly" radioactive, the Supers are going find new respect the Popular Vote.)
To: Jim Robinson
Please do not post any AP materialThat's 7 words that I'm sure have appeared in the AP somewhere. Pay up.
It's hard to string 5 words together that HAVEN'T appeared in AP somewhere.
AP just screwed the pooch.
/johnny
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:34:00 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:34:16 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Typical white person)
To: gunnedah
Anyone got the AP’s billing address?
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:34:38 PM PDT
by
AxelPaulsenJr
(300 Million People Going Bust Over High Gasoline Prices and Hussein Obama Wants to Hug Trees.)
To: Jim Robinson
Joseph Goebbels is saddened.
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posted on
06/17/2008 1:35:57 PM PDT
by
FMBass
("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
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