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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: TribalPrincess2U
BTW one doesnt PRODUCE news stories...one REPORTS THE NEWS.Well, there you have it. The AP has it exactly backwards since, if they report that "building ABC on Main Street burned down last night, and arson is suspected", no one else can report it.
That should really go over...
How many ways can you verbalize simple facts?
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posted on
06/17/2008 3:36:48 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
To: txflake
What about AP photos?
They are also under attack.
See my post 222
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posted on
06/17/2008 3:38:07 PM PDT
by
RonDog
To: RonDog
223
posted on
06/17/2008 3:38:16 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
To: Jim Robinson; All
What's FR Congressman BillyBob's take on this?
Isn't he a free speech lawyer?
Anybody know how to contact him for his input?
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posted on
06/17/2008 3:40:08 PM PDT
by
OnRightOnLeftCoast
(It not for double-standards, the Left would have no standards at all.)
To: presently no screen name
I said THE BENCH. Yes, I answered your question. And yet when I ask YOU a question, you say I am inserting myself? And you call that work? No I never called that work.
To: RonDog
“...can we use copyrighted material under the commonly observed fair
usage rules without getting hauled into court?”
Somewhere, Stalin is smiling.
At his fellow-travelers at the AP that want to print anything they
want.
And never, ever be criticized.
Or exposed as shills and/or liars.
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posted on
06/17/2008 3:42:27 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: ElkGroveDan
*Gasp*
FR is not your home page?
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posted on
06/17/2008 3:42:48 PM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: Jim Robinson
Ironically, their new policy will deny themselves free speech when few people pay to quote their propaganda.
228
posted on
06/17/2008 3:42:51 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
To: Jim Robinson
AP? Advocacy Press as Michelle Malkin calls them...or more like Addled Pablum
229
posted on
06/17/2008 3:43:38 PM PDT
by
eleni121
(EN TOUTO NIKA!! +)
To: Jim Robinson
There is no loss in not linking to AP. They are not a news organization. They are a liberal propaganda outlet, not much different than the DNC.
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posted on
06/17/2008 3:44:32 PM PDT
by
twntaipan
(NOBAMA! Say No to B.O.!)
To: ClancyJ
Do you pay for quoting a Time Magazine article? Do you pay for quoting a newscast on TV? No I do not.
To: SF Republican
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posted on
06/17/2008 3:45:55 PM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: Jim Robinson
The first half of your thread title is accurate, but the second half is not true at all. You are letting them control free speech by instantly giving in to their demand. That’s a demand which is unsupported by the law and patently absurd on its face.
I understand your reluctance to revisit the LA Times/Wash Post, but even those buttheads allowed excerpts. With no AP content at this forum, the number of news threads will diminish.
Probably quite significantly.
If you’re going to take this approach, you might as well decide that no material may be posted here without the express written consent of the author. Get it over with now, because if the AP can simply dictate law, so can everyone else.
I declare that no one may take a picture of my house, my car, or my dog. If you agree to a license fee of $1 million dollars, I’ll let you do it, but if I don’t like the picture you took, I’ll revoke the license.
It’s complete nonsense.
To: Jim Robinson
If you really want to screw them, just summarize the article.
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posted on
06/17/2008 3:46:18 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Jim Robinson
Does this include AP photos too?
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posted on
06/17/2008 3:46:35 PM PDT
by
silent_jonny
(Part of me is intrigued and the other part is disgusted at the part that is intrigued.)
To: SF Republican
Are you with the AP?
I don’t get a paper except on Wednesdays and weekends, and I will be cancelling that.
Therefore, I can not quote from that paper?
Why are the offering articles online then? No quoting of any article anywhere?
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posted on
06/17/2008 3:46:48 PM PDT
by
ClancyJ
To: Jim Robinson
Works for me since I don't read them anyway, in fact if I see AP (only two words!) in the article I immediately quit reading. I don't think this will, or should, stand the test of law. This is tantamount to saying you can read this but you may not discuss it. Certainly the blogsphere should be accorded the privileges of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
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posted on
06/17/2008 3:48:39 PM PDT
by
pepperdog
(The world has gone crazy.)
To: Jim Robinson
If you really want to screw them, just summarize the article.
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posted on
06/17/2008 3:48:39 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: bert
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posted on
06/17/2008 3:48:57 PM PDT
by
Wolverine
(A Concerned Citizen)
To: Jim Robinson
AP may be saying so, but I don’t think they can include the title of an article in their stated limit or limit quotes to four words and not make a joke out of Fair use. This is a power play in an election year.
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