We're not going to pay AP's extortion fees and we're not going to allow them to control free speech!

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

[Jim Robinson]

This is our Boston tea Party.

The Associated Press wants to levy a $12.50 and up license fee (aka extortion fee) on any blogger who quotes more than 4 words from one of their propaganda pieces. This is an outrageous attempt to control the blogosphere and free speech itself. To hell with their license fee and to hell with the AP. Any AP article that gets posted to FR will be jettisoned into the harbor posthaste.

Please do not post any AP material to FR excerpted or not.

[reagan_fanatic]

BTTT

[Panzerlied]

Sic Transit Gloria AP!

[Biggirl]

Bump for you Jim!

[Blennos]

No great loss here. The wildly partisan “news” outlets such as AP and Reuters are helping themselves along the road to eventual extinction.

[ConservativeMan55]

We’re behind you 100 percent Jim!

They are trying to control free speech.

The AP and the other Dinosaur media are trying to find ways
to keep from being scrutinized.

They’re using this and the Fairness Doctrine to try and quiet the new media.

[TexasCajun]

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

" Tell 'em boss! To hell with that, and to hell with AP! "

[Skooz]

You da man, Jim.

[Billthedrill]

I will say it’ll lower my blood pressure not having AP around. They are truly on a par with al Jazeera. BTT.

[Fishtalk]

I guess the vaunted Associated Press is above the law.

For there is already a perfectly adequete “Fair Use” law that protects from plagiarism but allows for a “fair use” of content.

This silly edict by them is going to make them more enemies than friends.

[LibWhacker]

OMG! Selectively enforced, I’m sure.

Roger, no AP articles.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

What’s the AP?

[YOUGOTIT]

BRAVO! AP = Anti-American Poop and they have always been a supporter of al-Qaeda just like CNN.

[ShadowAce]

[gunnedah]

Lets just bill them $15.00 for every article that shows up on our computer.

[gridlock]

The AP is shooting themselves in the foot, here. If people are not permitted to post their pieces, nobody is going to see them.

Not many people are going to drop coins in a slot to read AP stories in a newspaper. If they want to stop the Internet so they can get off, that is their choice.

[JRandomFreeper]

Please do not post any AP material

That's 7 words that I'm sure have appeared in the AP somewhere. Pay up.

It's hard to string 5 words together that HAVEN'T appeared in AP somewhere.

AP just screwed the pooch.

/johnny

[Bahbah]

Roger!

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Anyone got the AP’s billing address?

[FMBass]

Joseph Goebbels is saddened.

[NeoCaveman]

FU AP.

[Dacula]

Someone has got to stop this onslaught. We are losing our rights everyday!

[cdbull23]

Copyright, The Associated Press,
450 W. 33rd St.,
New York, NY 10001.

[Vigilanteman]

Bravo, Jim!

Four words for AP:

Go to the devil!

[RoseofTexas]

ATTA BOY JIM....SICK’EM!! I loathe the mediPUKES at A(ll)P(oop) with a passion.

[count-your-change]

How ‘bout charging AP for posting, say $2 a word? Why should anyone spread their product around for free?

[TribalPrincess2U]

You betcha boss!

[franksolich]

Okay, my question is this.

What about other news sources that say “from the Associated Press”?

Such, as say, something from the Omaha World-Herald, and its source is listed as the Associated Press?

This has got to be a real nuisance for you guys, and I don’t plan on contributing to it.

[PrincessB]

Could we get a list of AP “papers?” I’d be happy to not click on any of them either.

[antiRepublicrat]

The AP is just relying on the fact that most bloggers don’t have the money to go to court and face them to protect obvious fair use. I’m sure AP will try to get an idea of the financials of any blogger before sending any threatening letters.

As you all know, FR got hammered for the same, with some sites not even allowing the posting of short extracts. FR could have prevailed against such types if it had a sugar daddy willing to put up six years worth of operating expenses for a defense.

[444Flyer]

Glad to see you back in the captain’s seat!;)

[freeandfreezing]

What’s the AP?

A publishing service for useless liberal drivel and rarely accurate psuedo news. They won't be missed.

[teletech]

AP= Absolutely Pointles

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

That's what they want! Don't let the terrorists win!

[modest proposal]

Who wants to read their drivel anyhow?

[txflake]

I think the Omaha World-Herald would pay AP.

It certainly couldn’t/woudn’t pass through the fees.

Take FOX: probably 1/4 of it breaking news links are derived from AP. They’ll pass these costs to their advertisers.

[mamelukesabre]

Something is wrong here. How do they prove a string of 5 words came from their work? And who has authority to make you pay?

Maybe I’m not understanding what’s going on.

[MamaB]

Good for you. They seem to be anti anything we believe in anyway. I do not read their junk.

[Mr.Smorch]

AP has become a vessel for the anti-American left allowing
their perverted commentary to seep into the news print.
If it’s from AP, it’s usually slanted, biased, and/or lacking context. I think we’ll get along fine without them.

Furthermore, no self respecting fish would want to end up in that mullet wrapper.....

[rightwingintelligentsia]

That’s a good question. I see a lot of AOL or Yahoo! articles, for example, that have come from the AP.

I thought we couldn’t post directly from the AP (hostedap.org) already?

[savedbygrace]

AP = Always Pimping

[50sDad]

As my first name in Andrew and my second is Richard, I will expect that for any article posted here using those two words, I will have my Paypal account credited by $100. This is just business, really. Oh, and words that incorporate PARTS of my name will be credited at half the rate, so watch out for the use of AND and RICH. Individual letters found in my names will be at a bargin of five cents each. I figure that by the end of the year, I should own the planet, and Bill Gates will be doing my tech support.

Don't let me down guys!

[smithone]

Does that include links to AP articles?

[Alouette]

AP =
Al-Qaeda Partisans
Allah’s Propagandists

[NoGrayZone]

Amen. Time to help sink AP into the “harbor”!

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

So goes the old Leftist creed; “If you can’t fight ‘em, regulate ‘em till they quit.”

[Tammy8]

FR could have prevailed against such types if it had a sugar daddy willing to put up six years worth of operating expenses for a defense.

And that is the problem in a nutshell- it takes a lot of money to even try to stop this sort of thing. I do hope someone, somewhere does put up the money to take this issue all the way- I do think it could be stopped.

I am not a Supreme Court justice- but I see posting articles on the internet for discussion as no different than folks sharing the morning paper and discussing articles in a coffee shop. I also do not see why any news organization would not want their work distributed. In the real world, not everyone that reads a paper or magazine paid to read it, and certainly not everyone that discusses an article pays for the right. It doesn't make sense to me at all.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

So goes the old Leftist creed; “If you can’t fight ‘em, regulate ‘em till they quit.”

[weegee]

Turnabout is fair play. Be sure to send a bill to AP (and the 4,000 papers that carry their articles) if they quote any FR threads.

More FR content is working its way into the news media and “discussion” of things from the Obama rumors to exposure of media forgeries.

AP would have a hard time arguing “fair use” in light of the stance they are adopting.

[The South Texan]