Fair Use v. Plagiarism/Copyright Infringement (Updated: Another Blogger Takes a Stand, and the A.P. owes Michelle Malkin $132,125 under its new guidelines!)

June 18, 2008 by Jenn Sierra
Filed under FHK WebWarriors

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Original Post, 06/17/08: Yesterday, the folks at TechCrunch made what might seem like at odd announcement regarding stories from the Associated Press (A.P.):

…Here’s our new policy on A.P. stories: they don’t exist. We don’t see them, we don’t quote them, we don’t link to them. They’re banned until they abandon this new strategy, and I encourage others to do the same until they back down from these ridiculous attempts to stop the spread of information around the Internet…

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