CNN.com
August 5, 2009
In an attempt to generate new revenue, the Associated Press has partnered with iCopyright to charge licensing fees for quotes as short as five words.
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via Associated Press excerpts may cost $2.50 per word – SciTechBlog – CNN.com Blogs
from the archives:
AP Demands Bloggers Cease Printing Exerpts!!!
see also
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/21/copyright_enforcement_bill/
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6449/copyright_enragement/
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Fair enough. I can find other right-leaning media, like the Wall Street Journal, to use when necessary. Does it presume to have a lock on the news? And how do they enforce such a plan? Litigation? I suppose the AP could harass favored sites.
See also another post on this topic:
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/ap-demands-bloggers-cease-printing-exerpts/
Screw em, we’ll start our own media..and they will be worthless anyway…
So that’s the beginning of the end game for American blogging eh?
Oh, no. Just don’t use AP. I don’t, although some of the writers here may do from time to time.