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  • Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations [barred if damages AP reputation]

    06/17/2008 5:42:08 AM PDT · by Mike Fieschko · 42 replies · 579+ views
    Boing Boing ^ | June 17, 2008 | Cory Doctorow
    In the name of "defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt" the Associated Press is now selling "quotation licenses" that allow bloggers, journallers, and people who forward quotations from articles to co-workers to quote their articles. The licenses start at $12.50 for quotations of 5-25 words. The licensing system exhorts you to snitch on people who publish without paying the blood-money, offering up to $1 million in reward money (they also think that "fair use" -- the right to copy without permission -- means "Contact the owner of...