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A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web
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Posted on 07/25/2009 10:15:13 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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what a business model..........
To: Sub-Driver
Hopefully this will finish them off!
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:17:07 AM PDT
by
pepperdog
(As Israel goes, so goes America!)
To: Sub-Driver
Its bad enough reading Propaganda when its free. Who wants to pay for Propaganda?
To: Sub-Driver
Good luck with that.
Their articles just won’t be cited, linked or shared.
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:19:07 AM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: Sub-Driver
The A.P., a nonprofit corporation....![](http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/timewasters/burt_ward_adam_west_batman_the_movie_001.jpg)
Holy irony, Batman!
To: Sub-Driver
should be the last nail in their collective coffin
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:19:23 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: Sub-Driver
How about Universal Access to AP Articles Reform?
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:19:37 AM PDT
by
exist
To: Behind Liberal Lines
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:20:31 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: Sub-Driver
Hilarious.
"I'm going to lie to you and you're going to like it."
"Well, I don't like it."
"Okay, then I'm going to charge you for it."
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:21:08 AM PDT
by
PressurePoint
(See you in the unemployment line, Barack)
To: Sub-Driver
The goal, he said, was not to have less use of the news articles, but to be paid for any use.No, that's just a rather nasty side effect.
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:21:33 AM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: Lorianne
Allowing a headline and a link would steer business to their subscriber's page. Only allowing paying subscribers to use any part of an AP article will result in a withering of AP’s business eventually. Not a bad thing from my perspective.
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:24:05 AM PDT
by
RicocheT
To: Sub-Driver
THE REAL DEAL:
AP does not want FReepers, bloggers, and posters
to reveal they are nothing but liars. Liars. Liars.
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:24:59 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
To: Sub-Driver
It wants the 1,400 American newspapers that own the company to join the effort and use its software. I don't like the sound of this...
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:26:54 AM PDT
by
John123
(Turn on your teleprompter Obama and read your lips... "No New Taxes!!")
To: Sub-Driver
Most of what they write is synthesized propaganda, loaded with weasel words and designed for idiots. They are the first order of communist boot lickers.
Those are their good points.
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:30:53 AM PDT
by
Luke21
(If it's the Asspress, it's usually a lie.)
To: Sub-Driver
I run a small website locally that aggregates news articles from all over. I have been threatened with a lawsuit twice by the local AP outlet, on the grounds that my website constitutes “unfair competition”. They have threatened my twice and backed down both times.
I think if the local newspapers decided to try this hardline attitude that the AP is taking, it will be the final nail in the coffin for many if not most of them.
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:31:34 AM PDT
by
Bean Counter
( Shovel ready...)
To: Diogenesis
As a blogger, the solution presents itself: paraphrase any news story written by AP you find useful and never, ever link to it no matter where you find it posted.
Let's see how their subscribed customers like the reduced amount of indirect traffic they get on the web. All of the newspapers are suffering as it is. They get on board with this it will simply further reduce the amount of traffic they get.
Sounds like a win-win solution to their biased coverage; AP and all the rest go down in flames.
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:32:32 AM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Without God there is no freedom, for what rights man can give, he can take away.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Following the RIAA strategy of “sue your fans.” With similar success, most likely.
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:35:35 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: John123
I guess it may mean more work for us posting Freepers.
AP news stories can still be discussed here if you write a “vanity” saying I have read at NYT this and that, and express with your own words the gist of the story.
(Of course no link can be provided, but if you give enough info people can find the article themselves.)
No way they can stop that.
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:36:50 AM PDT
by
ScaniaBoy
(Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
To: Bean Counter
I run a small website locally that aggregates news articles from all over. I have been threatened with a lawsuit twice by the local AP outlet, on the grounds that my website constitutes unfair competition. They have threatened my twice and backed down both times.They are truly nuts. FR limits AP content to a headline, link and a few sentences. If interested in the story, I will click on a link to the article that will bring it up along with ads and links to their other articles. Forbidding even a headline and a link will ensure their content is not read at all. Throw the baby out with the bathwater, will ya.
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posted on
07/25/2009 10:36:59 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Obama's EPA wants to get rid of cows: They emit CO2 from the front end and CH4 from the rear.)
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