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Reuters responds to AP’s deranged attempt to charge up to $2.50 a word for content. Blaming the new leaders or aggregators for disrupting the business of the old leaders, or saber-rattling and threatening to sue are not business strategies – they are personal therapy sessions. Go ask a music executive how well it works. [...] AP is launching a massive monitoring program to track down evildoers who link to their articles, and to heck with that crazy Fair Use Doctrine. I wish AP all the best on its endeavor to keep its news from being used. Absolutely. If they don’t want to be linked to, then let’s not. Henceforth, Polizeros [...] AP says they aren’t concerned with bloggers copying a passage then adding their own thoughts, but will send cease-and-desist letters to those who, say, copy entire articles with no commentary. I’ve always made a point of quoting as little as possible, then adding my take on it. Not only is this more obviously fair use, [...] The Associated Press has always come down hard on internet sites that inappropriately (in its view) reproduce its content. Now, it’s going to go even further. AP will now actively monitor news sites looking for evildoers and they sure have been grumpy about this. Look, it’s always best to just copy a paragraph or [...] |  | ||||
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