Should we allow AP to make its own rules defining (restricting) fair use or should we boycott them?

Recent AP vs fair use threads ^ | June 17, 2008 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Our list of sites that must be excerpted due to copyright concerns continues to grow, but now the Associated Press is upping the ante. Not only are they not allowing full text postings, they're threatening to sue bloggers who allow the posting of AP titles and brief excerpts or even if their posters post brief quotes from AP articles within a discussion thread.

AP is now developing their own rules for fair use and will decide when, how and what they will allow the public to quote from their articles. And their rules are much more restrictive than is commonly allowed under existing fair use standards.

In fact, they want to charge a $12.50 license fee if you quote more than 4 words from one of their propaganda pieces.

To hell with that, and to hell with AP!

AP is hereby, forthwith and forevermore banned from FR!!

[Billthedrill]

Propaganda is right. No loss, IMHO. BTT.

[Old Mountain man]

You can’t believe a word they say, anyway!

[IncPen]

F the AP.

[inkling]

The AP boycott might be the thing that finally knocks over the MSM dinosaur. They just don’t know how to cope with modern technology.

[sionnsar]

Good call.

[KarlInOhio]

Since AP just distributes member newspapers' stories, can we still go back to the original source or does the fact that AP has distributed poison even the original version?

[Constitution Day]

I think the AP should (excerpt) (excerpt) themselves.

[lowbridge]

Make the same demand of AP. If they ever quote anything or anyone on FR, charge them.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I’m with you, Big Jim! F-— ‘em, I say!

[Domandred]

Screw em. We can get our news elsewhere or direct from the source.

The real question is that if an original news article is coopted by the AP wire but the original is the quoted source then does that trigger an AP lawsuit?

If so that could actually shut down a larger venue of news.

[fightinJAG]

“Fair use” is a legal concept, based on law. AP is not free to make its own definition of “fair use.”

That said, a pox on them.

[bolobaby]

“Make the same demand of AP. If they ever quote anything or anyone on FR, charge them.”

Absosmurfly. You know those AP hacks won’t be able to resist quoting FR every now and then.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Works for me. The AP is nothing but a bunch of liberal Bush-bashers and Palestinian apologists anyway. I won’t cry if I never see any more words written by Nedra Pickler or Glen Johnson.

[scrabblehack]

There was an old Abbott and Costello movie where Lou quoted a Latin American leader of long ago, who said it best in saying “I thank you.”

[TXnMA]

"To hell with that, and to hell with AP!

AP is hereby, forthwith and forevermore banned from FR!!"

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Ah -- leadership!!! JimRob, are sure you don't want to run for President? '-)

[KarlInOhio]

You stole that from post #7. Send me $12.50. :-)

[pgkdan]

No loss...AP is about as honest and accurate as Tass or Pravdan ever were.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

AP is hereby, forthwith and forevermore banned from FR!!

OK, but the Sports section is going to suffer...

[pgkdan]

No loss...AP is about as honest and accurate as Tass or Pravda ever were.