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Once Again: The A.P. Says It’s Going To Sue Aggregators

April 6, 2009 by Ron  
Filed under FHK WebWarriors

boycottAPminiFrom TechDirt.com:

from the this-ought-to-be-fun… dept

Given some of the Associated Press’s recent actions, this won’t come as a surprise, but the AP has now announced that it will start suing any news aggregator that doesn’t share its profits with the AP:

“We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories.”

I’m a bit curious what those “misguided theories” are… because copyright law and rules concerning fair use seem pretty clear, and search engines aggregating info and sending people to your site has been ruled fair use before. So, perhaps the AP chairman is talking about some other “misguided” legal theory? Another AP person claims: “This is not about defining fair use. There’s a bigger economic issue at stake here that we’re trying to tackle.” But she neglects to say what that is, other than our old business model sucks, and we’ve got no freaking clue how to adapt to the changing market place, so this is the best we’ve got…

That said, I’m not sure how this is any different than how the AP has acted in the past…Continue reading on TechDirt.com >>

Also see: Boycott the A.P.!

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  1. SayUncle » Free Market says:
    April 7, 2009 at 8:06 am

    [...] Zing: Our old business model sucks, and we’ve got no freaking clue how to adapt to the changing market place, so this is the best we’ve got [...]

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    April 8, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    [...] For more information on the mainstream media’s war on new media, check out the latest attempt by the Associated Press to intimidate bloggers, HERE. [...]

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    April 8, 2009 at 4:22 pm

    [...] For more information on the mainstream media’s war on new media, check out the latest attempt by the Associated Press to intimidate bloggers, HERE. [...]

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6 Responses to “Once Again: The A.P. Says It’s Going To Sue Aggregators”
  1. Jenn Sierra Jenn Sierra says:
    April 7, 2009 at 10:28 am

    No organization can be succcessful online without other sites/blogs linking to it. If everyone would just boycott the A.P., they’d go off into oblivion where they belong.

    But no! Instead, I and a handful of other bloggers like me have taken a considerable amount of heat from the members of the blogging community for adhering to our policy of not linking to or quoting A.P. stories. The prevailing wisdom seems to be that it’s impossible not to use link to the A.P. on a regular basis – not true. There are plenty of other news sources out there, and except for the need to occassional criticize the obvious left-leaning bias or general incompetence of the organization, there is really no need to pay the A.P. to quote its reports.

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  2. notboring says:
    April 8, 2009 at 1:57 am

    Unless news gathering is monetarized by internet users, the internet will become nothing more a collection of corporate press releases and lolcats.

    Reply

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