Posted on 04/06/2009 2:34:29 PM PDT by Nachum
Taking aim at the way news is spread across the Internet, The Associated Press said on Monday that it will demand that Web sites obtain permission to use the work of The A.P. or its member newspapers, and share revenue with the news organizations, and that it will take legal action those that do not.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
They should be paying us to publish their crap, not the other way around.
There are always links...right?
BTTT
They don’t like their liberal bias and shotty “journalism” being exposed.
Go to hell, A.P.
04/06/2009
AP Press Release
AP Board announces initiative to protect industry‘s content;
Further rate reductions and new “Limited” service respond to member needs
http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_040609a.html
Darwinism is alive!
reading the AP release carefully makes one wonder if they are losing “members”......
Exactly, and I can do without reading the ap
RIAA/SCO model of business.
They went after FR quite a while ago. As a result, posting AP articles isn’t permitted.
Actually, this violates the “fair use” laws, but I don’t blame Jim Robinson for not wanting to get involved with more lawsuits.
But if they start suing regular news organizations over fair use, they may find that can be expensive for them.
They can have an 80% share of the advertising revenue generated by this post.
(Lessee: 80% X $0.00 = 0bummer’s IQ)
The Asshociated Press is part and parcel of the decline of our country. The sooner it croaks, the better.
Hollywood can't keep gigabite video files off the net. They're going to block little bitty TEXT files? It really is a testimony to the pig-headed stupidity of these low-rent clowns. And yes, these are the same folks who think they can dictate what Americans can learn about Commander Zero and his band of crooks.
WHO, I ask, would be stupid enough to actually PAY for the AP’s CRAP!
How long before DUer’s and DKer’s start posting AP garbage here just to bring out AP’s lawyers?
Here we go again.
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