AP vs. Bloggers
Read all about the Associated Press and their recent very un-associated relation w/ bloggers. And I quote:
Very interesting.
Last week, The AP took an unusually strict position against quotation of its work, sending a letter to the Drudge Retort asking it to remove seven items that contained quotations from AP articles ranging from 39 to 79 words.
On Saturday, The AP retreated. Jim Kennedy, vice president and strategy director of The AP, said in an interview that the news organization had decided that its letter to the Drudge Retort was "heavy-handed" and that The AP was going to rethink its policies toward bloggers.
The quick about-face came, he said, because a number of well-known bloggers started criticizing its policy, claiming it would undercut the active discussion of the news that rages on sites, big and small, across the Internet. ...
"We are not trying to sue bloggers," Mr. Kennedy said. "That would be the rough equivalent of suing grandma and the kids for stealing music."
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I have mixed feelings about tis one. I'm a big advocate of intellectual property rights, yet I recognize that the digital society is one in which taking the work of others and incorporating it into your own is a standard practice.
Music sampling, Pop art, and even the Daily Show, are all derivative vehicles of expression
I feel that anyone has the right to repeat what someone said and comment on it.