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

[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.

[Publius6961]

BTW— one doesn’t 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?

[RonDog]

What about AP photos?

They are also under attack.

See my post 222

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for that info.

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

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?

[SF Republican]

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.

[VOA]

“...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.

[fanfan]

*Gasp*

FR is not your home page?

[Man50D]

Ironically, their new policy will deny themselves free speech when few people pay to quote their propaganda.

[eleni121]

AP? Advocacy Press as Michelle Malkin calls them...or more like Addled Pablum

[twntaipan]

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.

[SF Republican]

Do you pay for quoting a Time Magazine article? Do you pay for quoting a newscast on TV? No I do not.

[fanfan]

See post # 135.

[Dog Gone]

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.

[AppyPappy]

If you really want to screw them, just summarize the article.

[silent_jonny]

Does this include AP photos too?

[ClancyJ]

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?

[pepperdog]

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.

[AppyPappy]

If you really want to screw them, just summarize the article.

[Wolverine]

                    THREE WORDS

[Anti-Bubba182]

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.