Maybe the AP will get lost in wake of the rest of the worlds press.
We’ll know their demise is truly tragic, if there’s a stuffed toy in the wreckage.
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.
Actually, the site might be more enjoyable without so much liberal AP propaganda. You're right Blennos, no great loss...
Rush has been talking about how AP abuses their virtual monopoly on print news media in this country. Something like 4,000 newspapers.
Maybe we could share a lawyer...
This is beyond ridiculous, Fair Use allows more than 4-7 words.
I do understand Jim’s position, FR can’t afford to defend another Fair Use lawsuit. It’s someone else’s turn.
I wish the AP luck on collecting those fees....
I consider this move by AP to be more problematic for them than for the rest of us. No one will give the articles exposure other than some mainstream outlets which less and less people use anyway.
Maybe the AP will get lost in wake of the rest of the worlds press.
Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations [barred if damages AP reputation] (Boing Boing June 17, 2008 Cory Doctorow)
It gets better! If you pay to quote the AP, but you offend the AP in so doing, the AP "reserves the right to terminate this Agreement at any time if Publisher or its agents finds Your use of the licensed Content to be offensive and/or damaging to Publisher's reputation."
Something I just thought of - how in the world is someone going to write a research paper, publish it online, and how is one supposed to give citations and such? This is just absurd!
Are you defending some make up right to not allow even a few words quoted from one of their articles?
They are trying to stifle any commentary on their articles.
Who owns the rights to Winnie the Pooh anyway? they should be making a killing after that one. lol
Driving the AP out of business is a grand patriotic project!
You can always say something like this in response to one of their propaganda pieces:
“According to the Associated Press in an aricle published on June 17, 2008, partly entitled ‘It’s all America’s fault’ (notice it’s less than five words) America sucks. They’re now reporting that the war is lost and we should surrender to the terrorists immediately. Actually, they claim it’s all Bush’s fault. They’re also saying that the Osama-Obama/Clinton ticket is unbeatable and we should just cancel the election and let them take office early.”
(and post a link to back up your critique)
I’m sure it will be SELECTIVELY enforced.
So basically if they see commentary on one of their articles and they don’t like it.. they’re going
to take you to court.
What is next? Charging for orally quoting an AP article during a discussion about politics?
Milne’s family still owns Winnie The Pooh but Disney Corp. fights them to make it a public domain work.
See Disney fights both sides of the argument, that Mickey Mouse should NEVER lapse and that works they did license SHOULD lapse.
Maybe the AP will get lost in wake of the rest of the worlds press.
We’ll know their demise is truly tragic, if there’s a stuffed toy in the wreckage.
Sucks though, since mocking their exact words is so much more effective. They've got the lawyer army though.
Hopefully, they'll grow increasingly marginalized as they intentionally ban themselves from the arena of open debate.
What about AP photos?
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