Comments on: Bloggers, If You Really Want to Punish the AP . . .

By: Diordna

Diordna — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:42:18 +0000

Also if you look little further, most AP articles have other sources, like small town news papers, scientific organization, etc. I usually try to find the source since AP managed to slurp itself. I stopped quoting or referring to them but thank you for the idea.
Now if I can’t find the source, I will quote them but not link!

By: Lord Nazh

Lord Nazh — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:45:35 +0000

If I’m not going to link to AP, there’s no reason to even acknowledge AP; words can be put together in multitudes of ways to say basically the same things

By: Scott Jacobs

Scott Jacobs — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:33:20 +0000

omg…

That is my new favorite site…

By: Harvey

Harvey — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:26:27 +0000

I make up stories and source them to AP all the time:

http://www.imao.us/archives/cat_newsish_fakery.html

By: DRJ

DRJ — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:03:12 +0000

This blog entry by Robert Cox is interesting.

By: SP Biloxi

SP Biloxi — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:12:27 +0000

I have no intentions to link any AP stories. It is a bit silly on AP part to start first threaten bloggers, then make a decision to play nice and to “educate” bloggers on AP copyright use, and then want to charge bloggers for 5 words. There is a big difference between working together with bloggers for a common purpose of truth reporting versus this silly cat and mouse game of who is stealing what story or words from AP. I just see soon more and more of a shift readers of newspapers and TV to blogsites. The world of journalism needs a major cleanup.

By: PCD

PCD — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:48:52 +0000

Roy, 9, the only cure is to clean house. Remember Dukakis’ favorite saying? The fish stinks from the head. So does the AP.

By: George

George — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:45:14 +0000

Exactly, Al. A single AP story with an offending section could lead to hundreds of DMCA takedown actions.

By: Vermont Neighbor

Vermont Neighbor — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:32:07 +0000

DRJ’ s posts are sorely missed. This election season is lacking without her coverage.

By: Al

Al — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:14:11 +0000

I’m with George. The DMCA takedown requirements have the internet providers antsy, they don’t want to end up litigating anything – so a complaint leads to pulled content.