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Techcrunch is encouraging bloggers and website owners to not mention any AP stories due to their latest restrictions.
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  • http://current.com/items/89026881_the_associated_press_...
    Here's a link to a report on the AP's new guidelines. The AP will draw up limits and guidelines as to the amount of material in their reports that websites and blogs can use without infringing on their copyright. My question is: isn't that what the wires are for?
    abbym0308
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  • It is disgusting that big players like AP can use the threat of lawsuits to override federal law. Hopefully, some deep pockets players will fight this battle as a champion for all.
    seeker561
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  • mane me wanna set up blogs just to use 2 much text and piss them off :)
    troyka
  • It all falls in line with everyone worrying about "HOW MUCH ARE YOU GOING TO PAY ME???" It's all about a buck. AP and UPI were the main sources (wires) where the news was gotten for years. Now, too many people are "journalists" of sorts and they want their fees.
    Just like gasoline. We got used to it for real cheap. Then the greed sets in. There is the old story about the guy who gets out of prison for doing heroin. He is now clean and is going to start his new life without drugs. The dealer in the neighborhood is there to meet him at the prison gate. He hands him a bag of dope and says "It's free. The first one's on me."
    AP is a business like anything else. People start using your stuff and you want money for it. I do not know what the arrangement is with network and cable news and the papers. I know that it is a "NON PROFIT" cooperative of many newspapers. You don't walk into a store and get the newspaper for free. The crap is just starting to hit the fan. The copyright attorneys will have their offices full of cases.
    The intellectual property debacle with the Net has not yet begun to start fighting. Net Neutrality is something else. That's just an even playing field. Perhaps this will encourage people to think and not just regurgitate someone else's news. Or, just quote the Associated Press. I think we need to check their website and their rules of engagement. Private Ibber
    privateibber
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.h...
    “We are not trying to sue bloggers,” Mr. Kennedy said. “That would be the rough equivalent of suing grandma and the kids for stealing music. That is not what we are trying to do.”

    The seed is planted. This is such crap.

    Correct me if i'm wrong, but apart from the fair use act, doesn't the DMCA also come into play here? Don't bloggers have 24 hours to remove copyrighted material?
    YourMothersMilk
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  • Read comment #110 of the linked article. It's really good.
    BentFranklin
  • What is up with these retarded persons that need to get every single penny as if they are Scrooge McDuck?
    J_Jammer
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  • Ah.

    This is so predictable.

    BigMedia wants to dismantle the free information in the internet.

    Just like ISPs want to change the way the internet works, BigMedia just wants to take back the information.

    What can we do?
    Im pretty sure they will try to pull this off before Obama gets on.
    Juas
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  • http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=8978
    I was in radio before Current, and on July 7, 2005, I was anchoring the morning news. The headlines you hear on your local radio station are AP stories from the wire - without them, I wouldn't have been able to report the bombings in London.

    Perhaps the AP is just targeting blogs. But restricting access to this sort of information seems a huge disservice to the people, and a slippery slope with potentially huge effects.
    Tori
  • I can kinda see the point that they might want to limit the amount of material that is blatantly 'lifted' straight from their reports, but they're stepping on dangerous ground if it starts infringing fair usage laws.

    Besides, any decent journalist shouldn't be cutting and pasting anyway.
    mattbrawn
  • I'd have thought the value of being linked to by Drudge or other big sites would be of huge benefit to AP and if it's not right now, it should be.
    richjm
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  • watch this comment being used here, here and here
    I think if blogs credit them and have a link to the story it'll help them out more than anything.

    Isn't the point of news to reach as many people as possible?
    amypoo
  • Now - let's say I'm the news maker (I'm on headline news). Can I sue AP for publishing my story before I had a chance to publish?

    hmmm.........
    Raef
  • the news from the AP is filtered by deep pocket big wigs anyway, if the story is damaging to the powers the be(WEALTHY PEOPLE) then it will never see the light of day!!!
    senavicente_86
  • I assume that news organizations have to pay a fee to have access to the newswires, so maybe that's why the AP doesn't mind when CNN or Yahoo have AP articles, credited to the AP and the AP writer, on their pages. But if a blogger just rips it from CNN without crediting, and without having paid anything, I guess it makes more sense that AP is pissed? If bloggers can get it for free off the site of a paying customer, it might make it harder for them to maintain a group that will pay for it. I wonder what the AP thinks of this site?!
    davidtaylor
  • I think bloggers and whoever should be able to use whatever news is out there, as long as copyright law allows. New organizations should be about distributing information.
    Swiyyah
  • Is this all about the buck?
    stopnoise
  • This is sorta crazy. But I can understand the logic and why it's happening.
    webgrafix
  • yeah, follow the money and silence your critics... it's the "new American Way"...

    personally, as an engineering- and science-trained person, over the past year or so i've found that virtually ALL A/P articles have either factual errors, mis-statements of scientific principles, or outright lies, not to mention the continual poor grammar, mis-spellings and so on.

    i've come to basically discount every article sourced in my local paper from A/P.

    they can legislate the crap out of us, but if they produce dreck, it's still dreck, and they can't legislate our disrespect or lack of confidence in them out of us.

    let 'em try....
    plusaf
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here, here, here and here
    Companies have the right to protect their property. I think the new guidelines are fair. If you are going to make a living off of AP News, pay them for the service. What is wrong with there new regulation? I think the new regulations are fair. If the AP goes out of business, what are all of the bloggers and leeches going to do for content?
    mjsmith11
  • Wait a second - how many bloggers are actually making a living off their blogs? If I post a blog with my opinion all over it, and get cash in hand from advertisers for click-thrus, etc, I'm still not making money directly off what I've blogged. I'm making money off the ads people are visiting.
    When did the news become property?? If I'm in an accident the AP reports on, am I no longer allowed to blog about it? A blog is not a research paper, complete with an annotated bibliography or a references cited page. It shouldn't be held to the same standards as a news agency that is expected to present facts and be able to cite their sources.
    alicynx
  • You can quote me: "AP sucks!"
    derk
  • AP? There is no AP. It never existed.
    *whistles*
    PoisonTheMonkey
  • The news has always been, and forever will be, a business. They sell information. If you're a blogger, you get cash from ad revenue because people read what you blog. No info, no blog, no money. If they were making money showing pictures of their cat in a sink, it would be different.

    No one ever became a journalist for the money. AP writers need to make a living.

    Also, read the fifth paragraph of the original New York Times article.
    halestorm20
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