Dear Associated Press, Kindly Blow It Out Your Ass

By Eric on June 17, 2008

The big bad AP is outraged! outraged, i tell you! that we mean little bloggers are using quotations from their articles without paying them royalties from the gobs of money that we get from George Soros/the Obama campaign/MoveOn.org/whoever it is that’s supposed to be paying the big bad liberals these days. Apparently, the AP’s definition of fair use means that I should have to pay them $12.50 $7.50 (yay student discounts!) if I use just five words from their articles. So this really means two things:

1. I’m going to be getting most of my news from other sources, and
2. From now on, I will only quote at most four words from the Associated Press.

Oh AP, whatever shall I do without you?

Update: From the Great and Powerful Kos:

The AP is going to lecture bloggers about what the “spirit of the internet” is all about? Laughable. And the AP certainly doesn’t have free reign to rewrite copyright law on its own. Fair use provisions exist for a reason

If they don’t back off this ridiculous notion, there will be litigation, and Daily Kos will be happy to be at the forefront of any such effort.

Tags: Associated Press, fair use

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