Comments on: Someone please buy AP a clue

By: billenator

billenator — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:29:25 +0000

Crosbie: Your make sense and I bet the AP is willing to bet that most people will choose #1, #3 .. #2 and #4 are too painful or expensive for most people to fight

By: crosbie

crosbie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:39:44 +0000

Copyright infringement, even with a potentially successful defence of fair use, remains copyright infringement and is thus still subject to the DMCA.

If you're upset that this renders 'fair use' impotent, complain to those who drafted and enacted the DMCA.

I think you'll find AP can continue to be a bully and will do so.

You have a choice:
1) Be bullied/Acquiesce/Pay up
2) Pursue fair use in court (it cannot be asserted any other way)
3) Avoid the bully
4) Abolish copyright

By: Cletus

Cletus — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:15:49 +0000

Dastardly AP. They must be an agent of the Zionist conspiracy

By: billenator

billenator — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:43:46 +0000

In reply to Jim Kennedy of the AP:

I think the unsaid meaning here is bloggers are free to particpate in the news conversation of the day as long as you pay the AP. It's pretty clear from recent lawsuits that the Associated Press feels entitled to own the news. The AP has enjoyed a monopoly for probably much too long I fear and is behaving like a bully.

The facts of the news are in the Public Domain the facts of the news are Publici juris and no business may own the rights to fact not even the AP.

It is also clear that the AP has made the "Strategic" decision to use the faulty and nebulous doctrine of Hot News misappropriation as web 2.0, the internet, modern communications , technology, and public perception threaten their very existence.

I think it will be very interesting to see how current and future case law will further impact and erode AP's business.

By: Mahmoud Al-Qudsi

Mahmoud Al-Qudsi — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:34:06 +0000

The same thing was done to SnappedShot a while back, but for political reasons. SnappedShot was using images by the AP to protest the Israeli occupation of Palestine - the AP demanded they remove all photos pertaining to the Palestine-Israel conflict for “copyright” reasons.

Example with pictures stripped: http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/932-How-Peo...

Author's article on the legal threats:
http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/1692-And-Th...