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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: AxelPaulsenJr

AP = Always Pimping


41 posted on 06/17/2008 1:46:35 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: Jim Robinson
As my first name in Andrew and my second is Richard, I will expect that for any article posted here using those two words, I will have my Paypal account credited by $100. This is just business, really. Oh, and words that incorporate PARTS of my name will be credited at half the rate, so watch out for the use of AND and RICH. Individual letters found in my names will be at a bargin of five cents each. I figure that by the end of the year, I should own the planet, and Bill Gates will be doing my tech support.

Don't let me down guys!

42 posted on 06/17/2008 1:46:49 PM PDT by 50sDad (OBAMA: In your heart you know he's Wright.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Does that include links to AP articles?


43 posted on 06/17/2008 1:47:03 PM PDT by smithone
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To: Jim Robinson

AP =
Al-Qaeda Partisans
Allah’s Propagandists


44 posted on 06/17/2008 1:47:46 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: Jim Robinson

Amen. Time to help sink AP into the “harbor”!


45 posted on 06/17/2008 1:48:00 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (A Lesser Evil Is Still Evil.)
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To: Jim Robinson

So goes the old Leftist creed; “If you can’t fight ‘em, regulate ‘em till they quit.”


46 posted on 06/17/2008 1:48:15 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Juan McCain....The lesser of Three Liberals.")
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To: antiRepublicrat
FR could have prevailed against such types if it had a sugar daddy willing to put up six years worth of operating expenses for a defense.

And that is the problem in a nutshell- it takes a lot of money to even try to stop this sort of thing. I do hope someone, somewhere does put up the money to take this issue all the way- I do think it could be stopped.

I am not a Supreme Court justice- but I see posting articles on the internet for discussion as no different than folks sharing the morning paper and discussing articles in a coffee shop. I also do not see why any news organization would not want their work distributed. In the real world, not everyone that reads a paper or magazine paid to read it, and certainly not everyone that discusses an article pays for the right. It doesn't make sense to me at all.

47 posted on 06/17/2008 1:48:39 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please Support and pray for our Troops, as they serve us every day.)
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To: Jim Robinson

So goes the old Leftist creed; “If you can’t fight ‘em, regulate ‘em till they quit.”


48 posted on 06/17/2008 1:48:56 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Juan McCain....The lesser of Three Liberals.")
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To: Jim Robinson

Turnabout is fair play. Be sure to send a bill to AP (and the 4,000 papers that carry their articles) if they quote any FR threads.

More FR content is working its way into the news media and “discussion” of things from the Obama rumors to exposure of media forgeries.

AP would have a hard time arguing “fair use” in light of the stance they are adopting.


49 posted on 06/17/2008 1:49:08 PM PDT by weegee (In 1988 Lenora Fulani was the 1st black woman to appear on presidential ballots in all 50 states)
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To: Jim Robinson

50 posted on 06/17/2008 1:50:24 PM PDT by The South Texan (The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
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To: 50sDad

Hah!
From an AP article I read today:
a..and...the...it...government....president....congress

Oops! Sue me.


51 posted on 06/17/2008 1:50:57 PM PDT by smithone
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To: Jim Robinson

I think we should start charging AP the same amount if they quote more than four words from our posts. The management of AP must be really, really dense. 4 words? LOL!


52 posted on 06/17/2008 1:51:10 PM PDT by apt4truth
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To: Jim Robinson

Good, no more wasting time reading something from the Associated Pravda anyway.


53 posted on 06/17/2008 1:51:36 PM PDT by Left2Right ("It's going to be a long eight years...")
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To: Jim Robinson
The blogosphere should immediately start writing articles quoting unrelated AP dispatches as political criticism with patches of increasing length until they file action.

Let them go broke trying to enforce this witless, cynical, and illegal expansion of the scope of copyright laws, never mine unconstitutional free speech.

Doesn't AP enjoy an effective monopoly that until now was protected as a public service? Hmmmm...

54 posted on 06/17/2008 1:52:56 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (We have people in power with desire for evil.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Would they like that in Iranian Banknotes.
55 posted on 06/17/2008 1:56:31 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: Jim Robinson

bttt


56 posted on 06/17/2008 1:57:06 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: weegee
Turnabout is fair play. Be sure to send a bill to AP (and the 4,000 papers that carry their articles) if they quote any FR threads.

Excellent point!!
It will be interesting to see how Drudge handles this.

57 posted on 06/17/2008 1:57:13 PM PDT by smithone
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To: Jim Robinson

Sons of Liberty Ping


58 posted on 06/17/2008 1:57:27 PM PDT by isaiah55version11_0 (For His Glory)
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To: Jim Robinson
There is a cow pasture just across the street from me.

If I want to read something from AP. I just tear the middle of a page out and stare at the mounds in that pasture.

Same content.

59 posted on 06/17/2008 1:57:55 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: smithone

According to Jim’s post, I’d say yes. No sense in giving AP the hits.

I do wonder what’ll become of the fauxtography exposes of AP’s propaganda.


60 posted on 06/17/2008 1:58:09 PM PDT by weegee (In 1988 Lenora Fulani was the 1st black woman to appear on presidential ballots in all 50 states)
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