[FrankR]

Associated Press has always swapped spit with obama and the liberals, and this is just their “committee assignment” in killing the opposition...aka “Hush Rush”.

[Lazamataz]

You want to beat them at this?

Up the operating costs a bit (read: fundraise), hire two writers, and have them be the only two who can post articles. They can interpret what they see on the wires. That will make all of our content original material.

You cannot copyright facts, just the presentation of them.

[Alex Murphy]

The Las Vegas Sun reports that Righthaven has signed up Media News as a client and has sued a blogger on behalf of the Denver Post, after the blogger apparently reposted a Denver Post column by Mike Rosen (with a link and credit). This is interesting for a few different reasons. First, it was just a few weeks ago that the Denver Post published a cryptic "reminder" about copyright that had a bunch of people scratching their heads.

Bye bye, Denver Post! No more free advertising for you!

[monkeyshine]

Can we file this under MSM continues to dig it’s own grave?

[FromLori]

Righthaven now working with Media News, sues over Denver Post column

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/dec/05/righthaven-now-working-media-news-sues-over-denver/

[bigbob]

AP seems to be down to hoping the court system can save their outmoded business model.

[a fool in paradise]

Jim Robinson posted thread on media vs internet...

[the_Watchman]

What is the current FR policy on links to AP articles? Should we notify the moderators when the rules are not followed?

[Bean Counter]

I believe a lot of the bullying that takes place over copyrights is just that, bullying. I’ve read some of the claims made by newspapers in their online copyright statements, and if you went by it literally, it is illegal to have more than one copy of their paper in your possession at any time.

That makes your newspaper recycling bin a major crime scene!

AP has had the goal of finding a way to charge for their news content for a while now, and aggressively pursuing purported copyright violations is how they muscle bloggers who are widely perceived and described by the industry as “unfair competition”.

Then again, consider the number of persistent Blog Pimps here at FR. RandysRight comes immediately to mind as he just had yet another of his obnoxious blog pimping threads shut down by the AdminMod just a little while ago. He has no connection to FreeRepublic LLC, but he can sure as hell get this site into a copyright violation by posting someone else’s copyrighted material here and pretending it is his own. Some are worse than others but they are all a big copyright problem for anyone who runs a site like this one.

Jim, I’m glad to see that you signed up for DMCA Safe Harbor protection. I have no idea what it costs, but you might want to share that for the next fundraiser.

[NoGrayZone]

They are trying everything possible to hush up the little sheeple.

I don’t believe they actually know what they are pushing for. They are the “people of unintended consequences”.

Apparently, they don’t know how to learn a lesson or two, or three, or four.....heck infinity!!

[thackney]

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