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AP Backs Down, Blog Crisis AvertedPosted on Jun 16, 2008The Associated Press over the weekend challenged the very format of blogging, prompting an immediate boycott and, almost as quickly, a reversal. The blogosphere began organizing a bipartisan boycott after AP informed the Drudge Retort that its excerpts of AP stories—some as short as 39 words—were a violation of copyright. The news cooperative has since retreated, saying it will work toward “better and more positive” guidelines. With newspapers in trouble and the Web changing the nature of the business, it’s no wonder the AP is spooked. But suing, or threatening to sue, blogs that quote a few lines (as we are about to), is not a workable business model. The AP is right to back down and right to develop guidelines for what it finds appropriate before having a Web tantrum.
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By Jeanine Molloff, June 16 at 8:58 pm #
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Let the AP do what it will; we don’t need their inept reporting. We can do what the infamour I.F. (Izzy) Stone did--troll the archives and government sources and quote directly from the source, totally omitting the pseudo-journalistic AP. Who needs those corporate hacks anyway?! This is nothing more than an attempt to silence any true journalism; something the corporate AP would know nothing about.
Report thisGood riddance to bad corporate rubbish!
By Cernig, June 16 at 10:11 am #
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The AP hasn’t backed down, it’s just spinning the issue as hard as it can. The plain truth is that it is still pursuing the DMCA takedowns that started all this and is now saying it will set guidelines which, by the looks of things, will set a creeping precedent which goes beyond the limits of existing law.
Regards, C
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