Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They’re Banned ********
Posted on 16 June 2008 by Jack
The stories over the weekend were bad enough - the Associated Press, with a long history of suing over quotations from their articles, went after Drudge Retort for having the audacity to link to their stories along with short quotations via reader submissions. Drudge Retort is doing nothing different than what Digg, TechMeme, Mixx and dozens of other sites do, and frankly the fact that they are being linked to should be considered a favor. After heavy criticism over the last few days, the A.P. is in damage control mode, says the NYTimes, and retreating from their earlier position. But from what I read, they’re just pushing their case further.
They do not want people quoting their stories, despite the fact that such activity very clearly falls within the fair use exception to copyright law. They claim that the activity is an infringement.
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So here’s our new policy on A.P. stories: they don’t exist. We don’t see them, we don’t quote them, we don’t link to them. They’re banned until they abandon this new strategy, and I encourage others to do the same until they back down from these ridiculous attempts to stop the spread of information around the Internet.
Note: I just took AP off the list of news sources I check. Nobody needs this harrassment and there are plenty of fish in the pond. The big loser in this “tempest in a teapot” will be AP in the long run.
Update: AP Gets Worried
Update: The AP attempts to lasso the blogosphere
Update: AP facing boycott, to set blogger guidelines
Update: Blogger Boycott of Associated Press
Update: Guardian: AP faces copyright row with bloggers
Update: Althouse: Associated Press seeks to dictate terms
Update: 6:55 pm and I’m gone.
Goodnight.
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June 16th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Well banning AP means you are one step closer to getting something useful out of the MSM.
Put Reuters in your sights for the next MSM removal.
They still haven’t apologized for their participation with Hisbollah in faking the Qana “Massacres”
June 16th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
When you throw down the gauntlet, it’s always wise to make sure it won’t land in a sloppy cowpat.
The MSM is out of touch. They just don’t get it. Their monopoly on the information channel is so over.
A smart newswire service would be making deals with important bloggers, not trying to kill them. Kill one blogger, and ten more will spring up in their place. Fools.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
interesting article from the BBC. coming to a town near you.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7456357.stm
June 16th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Thanks, Spike.
June 16th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I’m getting a laugh out of this. Yesterday I was contacted by a reader and warned about AP actions. Having recently “observed” (and participated in) what happened to Elizabeth Thompson when she stepped in a cow patty I kept my powder dry.
I was waiting for this and the “pile on” has now begun.
It won’t take long before AP fires all their lawyers and start fresh.
“Bad Advice.”
June 16th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
AP has certainly got their ‘knickers in a knot’. Re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic? Yup, that’ll save them.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Phoooy! So did Little Green Footballs. I guess we won’t see any more on their Fauxtography series where they rip apart the AP’s photojournalism pictures - the index is at http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/22391_Fauxtography_Updates
Just WHAT the AP is, is found in the article …
LGF Exclusive: How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News?
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/22055_LGF_Exclusive-_How_Much_Does_It_Cost_to_Buy_Global_TV_News
Don’t be lazy … this item is the opposite of a “normal” news item’s layout of opinion - background - facts. It gets “weirder” and “scarier” the further on you read.
And now you know where CTV gets their “unbiased” footage. I tried to find the reference where YOUR local paper is REQUIRED by their contract to print AP photos and news items, un-edited. Maybe someone else can “prove” this?
So what? Um, I noticed the newspaper in Guelph certainly does; which is read by the students at the University of Guelph.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:42 am
This is too good not to share. This link goes to, well, you’ll see where. But the picture of the judge with his posters! (c) AP
http://www.proudtobecanadian.ca/blog/index/weblog/8819/
I wish I had seen this before I my last trip to Guelph. Before I had dinner with my Ohio relatives with their odd-to-me outlook. Hey! I live in the Southern Mainland (BC); I’ve lived in LA - no one should be more left leaning than me!
But I’m old enough to remember that shooting that psychotic mass murder Che was the Bolivian military’s GOOD thing! Now HISTORY is saying the Bolivians did it only because the CIA paid US$20,000 - ignoring the torture victims found in Che’s camp - the soldiers got really, really p*ssed off at him. Isn’t the original news article and pictures still in the Toronto Star’s archives?
June 17th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
AP articles? I rarely do. On reading them, one pretty much gets regurgitated leftist pap anyway. (Not quite as bad as Reuters has become but close.)
Reminds me of an old Yankee joke about a certain American news magazine:
How do you keep an American UNinformed?
Hide his copy of ____.
How do you keep him MISinformed?
Find it for him.