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Making Light  says…

The Associated Press wants to charge you $12.50 to quote five words from them

The Associated Press, having already announced its intention to harass bloggers who publish snippets as short as 39 words from...

TechCrunch  says…

The A.P. Has Violated My Copyright, And I Demand Justice

As far as I can tell, the Associated Press is sticking by its ridiculous and unlawful assertion that “direct quotations, even short ones” are copyright infringements and result in lawsuit threats and DMCA takedown notices. This story led us…

BuzzMachine  says…

AP, hole, dig

In Saul Hansell’s NY Times report on the AP affair, they only dig themselves deeper, saying they don’t want us to quote their stories but to summarize them. That, you see, is the AP way: the mill. That is not our way: the ethic of the quote a…

TechCrunch  says…

The NYTimes Is Conflicted And Wrong About The A.P. And Needs To Stop Defending Them

The New York Times’ Saul Hansell has now written three articles defending the Associated Press and their attempts to broaden content rights beyond what copyright laws allow. The A.P., in short, doesn’t want anyone quoting more than four word…

Bits  says…

The A.P., Hot News and Hotheaded Blogs

Some bloggers call for a boycott of the Associated Press over its plan to help define how much of its content can be used on other Web sites. The anger misses more than 100 years of legal fights over whether paraphrasing the A.P.'s news artic…

Workbench  says…

AP Settles Dispute with Drudge Retort

Late Thursday night, AP issued the following statement after a day-long discussion of the DMCA takedowns issued to the Drudge Retort that reached all the way up to the company's top management:In response to questions about the use of Associa…

Buzz Networker - Social Networking  says…

Associated Press alienates bloggers all around the world

Recently, the Associated Press threw down a gauntlet and started a great big hairy fight with bloggers. The gist of the matter is that they’re they don’t want bloggers to quote from their stories.  They asked one blogger to take down seven po…

Publishing 2.0  says…

Associated Press Hands Local And National News Sites An Opportunity To Get Links And Traffic

The Associated Press is facing a blog firestorm after issuing take down notices to Drudge Retort for linking to and reproducing snippets of AP stories. AP is now attempting to define how their stories can be linked to and excerpted -- and the…

Patterico's Pontifications  says…

Irony Alert: AP Attacks Blogs for Quoting Their Stories, Then Quotes Even More Extensively from Blogs

So the AP has been threatening bloggers who quote their stories: Last week, The A.P. 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 quotati…

Bits  says…

The A.P. Asserts Tough (and Still Secret) View of Copyright on Blogs

In a fight with a social news site, The Associated Press has asserted that Internet sites cannot quote the headline and first paragraph of its articles. But so far, the news organization hasn't articulated its own guidelines for its view of h…

Bits  says…

Jay Adelson Diggs the A.P.

The chief executive of Digg, the big social news site, says he has sympathy for the claim by the Associated Press that blogs and other Web sites shouldn't quote from its articles. If users cut an paste too much on Digg, he said, they will be …

New York Times: Technology  says…

Bits: The A.P. Asserts Tough (and Still Secret) View of Copyright on Blogs

In a fight with a social news site, The Associated Press has asserted that Internet sites cannot quote the headline and first paragraph of its articles.

NYT > NYTimes.com Home  says…

Bits: Jay Adelson Diggs the Associated Press

The chief executive of Digg, the big social news site, says he has sympathy for the claim by the Associated Press that blogs and other Web sites shouldn’t quote from its articles.

Work Boxers  says…

Horsefeathers! AP’s Attempts To Re-Define Fair Use - The Fallout

Much ado about nothing… So, the Associated Press attempts to re-define Fair Use. And someone doesn’t care for it. So what? The AP isn’t controlled by those who don’t like what they do. “So here’s our new policy on A.P. stories: they don’t exi…

Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog  says…

The A.P.’s unjustifiable risk

The Associated Press entered highly dangerous territory last week when it sent take down notices to a publication (a.k.a. blog) known as The Drudge Retort over what it considered copyright violations. In what is widely regarded as typical fai…

Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard  says…

AP backs off — or does it?

Confusing NY Times piece up tonight first suggests that the AP has “retreated” in an “about face” after its hamhanded takedown notices sent to Rogers Cadenhead and his Drudge Retort. But then near the bottom of the piece we learn that the or…

E-Media Tidbits  says…

AP v. Bloggers: Hurting Journalism?

icopyright.net Here's what the Associated Press currently charges to quote their stories online. Prices start at $12.50 for five words. Um, what happened to fair use? Stealing a page from Recording Industry Association of America's playb…

Search Engine Watch Blog  says…

Associated Press Wants To Set Rules For Blog Usage

Seems the Associated Press wants to meet with members of the blogging community to set rules for how their content is used online, following the 'interaction' between AP and the Drudge Retort over usage. AP had sent a letter to the Drudge Re…

Conversation Agent  says…

AP Content off Limits - Guidelines to Come

I saw the news story in the New York Times and immediately felt guilty for having even mentioned the new AP report A New Model for News. I was talking about it in the context of user experience translating into circulation online. I believe I…

RexBlog.com: Rex Hammock's weblog  says…

Can you link to an AP story and include a brief excerpt? Yes, we can — but don’t

The question: Can you link to an AP story and include a brief excerpt? Why it’s news: Late last week, a portion of the blogosphere blew-up when the AP sent a takedown notice to the website Drudge ReTort (a Drudge Report parody site) asking it…

Napsterization  says…

Associated Press C&Ds Rogers Cadenhead, Gets Boycotted by Bloggers

What's going on is this: Rogers Cadenhead received 7 C&Ds from the Associated Press, because he quoted from their articles in Drudge Retorted. My view in looking his quotes is that they fall absolutely under fair use (they are all within th…

mathewingram.com/work  says…

Associated Press: In a hole, still digging

Not content to just distribute DMCA “notice and takedown” letters to unsuspecting websites like The Drudge Retort — a community news blog that is about as far from a commercial media entity as you can get — for excerpting its news stories, As…

MediaShift  says…

Takedown Tiff::AP Badly Mistaken on Drudge Retort

Last week, the Associated Press decided that the Drudge Retort was in violation of copyright laws because it excerpted parts of AP stories and linked to them. The AP legal team sent a cease-and-desist letter to Drudge Retort's owner, the tec…

E-Media Tidbits  says…

AP/Drudge Retort "Resolution" Leaves Fair Use Questions Unanswered

PSD via Flickr (CC license) AP and the Drudge Retort have resolved their copyright issue -- but do bloggers, journalists, and others remain on thin ice? This week I've been covering what appears to be an assault by the Associated Press on…

Outside the Lines  says…

Welcome to the Web refactory, AP

The Associated Press has brought to the foreground the issue of "fair use" related to taking snippets from articles, according to an article in The New York Times. Jim Kennedy, a seasoned jou…

The Aquent Talent Blog: Career Advice and Insights for Marketing Professionals  says…

Give It Away, Give It Away, Give It Away Now

On Twitter the other day talking with the Conversation Agent about the Associated Press' decision to go after sites that quote too much of their content - apparently, they called the Drudge report out for quotations ranging in length from 39 …

Workbench  says…

AP Rethinking Policy After Drudge Retort DMCA Takedowns

I'm gratified by the ginormous amount of support coming in from around the blogosphere after the Associated Press issued DMCA takedowns last week to Drudge Retort bloggers for excerpting short snippets of its articles. AP is rethinking its po…

Social Media  says…

A.P. to set guidelines for using its articles in blogs

NY Times: Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs. An important development in the relationship between blogs and traditional media. Excerpt: The Associated Press, one of the nation’s largest news organizations, sai…

MiniMediaGuy  says…

Newspapers, blogs converge and conflict

To a considerable extent blogs have fed off mainstream media, repeating and commenting, supplementing and contradicting, but more often than not using some news article as their starting point. Now two developments, noticed by contributors to…

Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim  says…

The Associated Press: FAIL!

If you happen to have a life outside of the internet, you likely missed the blogstorm this weekend over the Associated Press’s attempts to force the Drudge Retort to stop quoting AP stories–it even sent a cease and desist letter to the blog. …

SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog  says…

The Associated Press Uses the DMCA to Try and Shut Down Bloggers

Posted by Sarah Bird, EsquireMay It Please the Mozzers, I have some disconcerting news to report on today's Legal Monday. In a move that it will surely regret, the Associated Press (AP) declared war on the internet. Maybe that's a slight …

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs  says…

AP Struggles To Save Face In Blogger Copyright Dispute

I don't blame The Associated Press for refusing to participate in a conversation about its attempts to overthrow government authority and rewrite copyright law to its own liking. The AP is like a husband who foolishly told his wi…

L.A. Times Tech Blog  says…

AP picks a fight with bloggers

The Associated Press is trying to back out of an Old Media-New Media fight that it didn’t quite mean to pick. The 162-year-old news service will sit down with representatives of a bloggers group Thursday to devise guidelines allowing Internet...

Furrier.org - Business & Technology Blog  says…

AP “CopyFight”: Swing and Miss Strike 1; AP Swings The Big Stick at Bloggers

Associated Press is trying to set guidelines on how bloggers can leverage their content (that they post freely to the world). Translation: AP is trying to use it’s decaying muscle to kill the bloggers. The Associated Press, one of the nat…

SearchViews.com  says…

Reverse Optimization: AP to Bloggers, “Hands Off!” ; Bloggers to AP, ”Don’t Make us Angry – You Wouldn’t Like Us When We’re Angry…” ; SearchViews Officially Joins AP Boycott

The Social Times  says…

A Fierce Battle Ignites Between AP and Bloggers

Over the weekend the Drudge Retort received take down notifications from the Associated Press for republishing the title and first few sentences of a story. It has created an uproar around the blogosphere resulting in a boycott of AP content…

Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge  says…

Associated Press Looks to Corral Use of Content on Blogs

New York - The Associated Press (AP) newsgathering agency will attempt to define how much attributed borrowing constitutes "fair use" of its news articles and broadcasts for bloggers and other websites, The New York Times reports. The AP las…

shoutingmat.ch (tech)  says…

The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs | New York Times

Jun 16, 2008, 1:37pm: "The effort may offer a prominent definition of the important but vague doctrine of 'fair use,' often a contentious issue in the blogosphere."Link referenced in 5 sources:Tech Crunch | Here's Our New Policy On A.P. stori…

shoutingmat.ch (tech)  says…

The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs | New York Times

Jun 16, 2008, 11:44am: "The Associated Press, one of the nation's largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can ex…

Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere  says…

Bloggers to AP: You're Dead to Me

Last week the Associated Press began taking a very aggressive stance on the use of its content. They threatened the Drudge Retort with take-down notices over several items that contained very short 39 to 79 word quotes from its articles. Many…

Social Media Butterfly  says…

AP to Restrict Content Use on Blogs

The Associated Press apparently is not to thrilled about how bloggers use their content. So they’re setting out to establish standards by which their content can appear on blogs, according to the New York Times. I can see both sides of the is…

Social Media Today  says…

The Seven Deadly Sins Of Social Media

Social media like Facebook, Flickr, and Delicious has been around for a couple of years now and companies are starting to dip a tentative toe into the water. While such courage should be applauded, se...

Social Media Today  says…

Associated Press Throw Their Toys Out of the Pram

The big news at the moment is about the draconian measures taken by the Associated Press towards bloggers. In case you haven’t spotted the story yet, the background is this. Well known blogger was acc...

Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog  says…

The AP Hates The Blogosphere. We Hate Them Back

Over the past few weeks I've come to find that my patience for stupidity is at its lowest in the morning. Combined with the fact that it's Monday, the most sleepy and irritating day of the week, you can imagine my reaction when I opened up my…

Etaoin Shrdlu  says…

Linkage

You may not have had much spare time for reading recently (I haven't) so I'm just catching up with the dust-up between the AP and bloggers. The issue seems to center on whether AP was zealously protecting its content from unauthorized appropr…

Josh Bancroft's Linkblog  says…

The A.P. Has Violated My Copyright, And I Demand Justice

Shared by Josh Bancroft What's good for the goose is good for the gander... As far as I can tell, the Associated Press is sticking by its ridiculous and unlawful assertion that “direct quotations, even short ones” are copyright infringeme…

Social Media Today  says…

A Fierce Battle Ignites Between AP and Bloggers

Over the weekend the Drudge Report received take down notifications from the Associated Press for republishing the title and first few sentences of a story. It has created an uproar around the blogosp...

Social Media Today  says…

AP to Restrict Content Use on Blogs

The Associated Press apparently is not to thrilled about how bloggers use their content. So they’re setting out to establish standards by which their content can appear on blogs, according to the New ...

VentureBeat » DigitalMedia  says…

Roundup: The Associated Press tries to take down blog excerpts, Google’s escape clause revealed and more

Here’s the latest action: The Associated Press to blogs: Don’t quote us — The Associated Press has demanded that The Drudge Retort (not to be confused with much more famous Drudge Report) take down several blog posts containing excerpts of …

Valleywag  says…

Michael Arrington drops the banhammer on the Associated Press [Copyfight]

A couple of bloggers have gotten their panties in a bunch because the Associated Press, a coop that offers original reporting to its 1,500 member newspapers and syndicates to other outlets, is asking that they go a little easier on the copy-p…

L.A. Times Tech Blog  says…

Around the Web 6.16.2008: XM-Sirius moves ahead, Icahn moves back

-- The Associated Press is trying to stop bloggers from quoting more of its stories than the media company deems appropriate, the NYT reports. TechCrunch starts an AP boycott in response. FCC staff says XM-Sirius merger is OK by them;...

IP Democracy  says…

My Two Cents on the AP's Blog Policy Fiasco

(Back from the almost-dead...big household move completed. Chief lesson learned: most of the stuff we own we don't need. Very liberating.) After going off-grid for days, I came back to find learn about the firestorm created by the Associated Press...

RojoBlog  says…

AP Declares War on Bloggers?

Here come the takedowns. The Associated Press, one of the world’s largest news organizations, is facing a blog–bully firestorm after threatening Rogers Cadenhead and his Drudge Retort (a Drudge Report parody site) for linking to and reproduci…

MEGO  says…

APpalling

At the start of the weekend, the Associated Press sent seven takedown notices to the Drudge Retort, a progressive spin on Drudge's link journalism format (as one can guess from the name, it started as a direct response, but has since turned i…

The Journalism Iconoclast  says…

Another look at the AP blogging fiasco

After cooling down and thinking about the situation more, I’ve got some new thoughts. The Associated Press is in bind, with very few good options. AP makes money off of selling their content for someone else to publish, which is quite differe…

illuminea  says…

Associated Press tries to rewrite copyright laws and says no to blog excerpts

Today, the Associated Press took bloggers to task by stating that they do not allow anyone to quote excerpts from their articles. They specifically went after The Drudge Retort, a left-leaning political site that aggregates short bits of cont…

Napsterization  says…

More on the Media Bloggers Association and AP - Need Retraction/Correction From AP/NYT

This is a follow up to my post a couple of days ago, detailing the AP situation and protesting their request that bloggers just use AP summaries of stories, not quote from (per fair use) their stories, and their C&D notices to Rogers Cadenhea…

Lost Remote  says…

AP rethinking blogger use of its content

Last week the Associated Press sent the Drudge Retort (with a “t” not a “p”) a letter asking that it remove excerpts of AP content — 39 to 79 words in length — saying it was a copyright infringement. Over the weekend, the AP backed off a bit…

MediaFile  says…

XM and Sirius: Weren’t they merging or something?

Finally, some movement. It seems that the head of U.S. Federal Communications Commission Kevin Martin will support Sirius Satellite Radio’s proposed purchase of rival XM Satellite Radio. The Washington Post and others are reporting that Mart…

Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog  says…

NYTimes.com: AP to set rules for bloggers

The Associated Press (AP) is to establish guidelines for bloggers using the agency's content. The AP will define how much of its articles and broadcasts blogs and other independent websites can use without infringing its copyright. The deci…

Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog  says…

AP facing boycott, to set blogger guidelines

An online petition has been set-up urging bloggers to boycott the Associated Press (AP), after the agency filed takedown notices against Drudge Retort for use of its content on the site. The campaign run by UnAssociatedPress has gained 75 sig…

Michael Gracie  says…

AP Fight: Protecting Content Or Temporarily Quelling Discontent?

The Associated Press vs. The Blogosphere There’s a battle brewing between the Associated Press and the Internet. The gist…the AP sent DMCA notices to one Drudge Retort, a community news website that was republishing one-liners from their new…

GMSV  says…

AP: Just a misunderstanding, nothing to see here, move along

As expected, the Associated Press moved a second writethrough on its interpretation of fair use of its content in the blogosphere (see “AP: Give us a minute to scrape this off our shoe“), and the only thing it clarified was AP’s deep desire t…

Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check  says…

The A.P., Hot News and Hotheaded Blogs - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

The debate continues... There was a lot of anger in the blogosphere last week over the Associated Press’s claim that some blogs were infringing its copyright by publishing excerpts of its articles. When I finally reached Jim Kennedy, an Ass…

Steve Sloan, SJSU Tech on a mission  says…

Associated Press vs. Bloggers?

AP vs. Bloggers and Fair Use According to the LA Times, "The 162-year-old news service will sit down with representatives of a bloggers group Thursday to devise guidelines allowing Internet commentators to use excerpts from AP stories and bro…

GMSV  says…

AP: Give us a minute to scrape this off our shoe

Stories from the Associated Press often move on the wire as a series of write-throughs, each new version fixing mistakes, adding context and such. Now, after stepping in it big-time Friday with its wrongheaded and counterproductive anti-linki…

Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check  says…

The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs - NYTimes.com

Interesting times The Associated Press, one of the nation’s largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerp…

Bloggasm  says…

Talk about stealing my thunder: More developments on the AP story

Wow, at almost the exact same time that I published my article on the AP takedowns, the New York Times posts an article with similar subject matter. There’s only one major difference between the two articles, and that’s because the AP actuall…

Media Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha  says…

AP Hands Local and National News Sites an Opportunity to Get Links and Traffic

The Associated Press is facing a blog firestorm after issuing take down notices to Drudge Retort for linking to and reproducing snippets of AP stories. AP is now attempting to define how their stories can be linked to and excerpted — an…

All Things Digital  says…

Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs [Voices]

The Associated Press, one of the nation's largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing…

THE DIGITAL BLUR  says…

AP Declares War on Bloggers & “Fair Use”

Over the last few days, the Associated Press has caused quite a stir in the blogosphere, strong arming bloggers for doing what they do best - promoting other content, and then back peddling in apology mode after the repercussions reverberated…

the(new)mediaslut  says…

TMS links for June 19, 2008

The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs AP decides to set the rules… AP, hole, dig … But Buzzmachine says “protection is no strategy for the future”… Hmmm… something for our local publications to consider? He…

Center for Citizen Media: Blog  says…

AP Tries to Play with Bloggers, Fails Utterly

Others have said this better already, but the Associated Press is on a fool’s errand with its new program in which it aims to charge others — including some bloggers — for making what is blatantly fair use of AP stories. (See the wire’s (unin…

202km.com  says…

The A.P. Has Violated My Copyright, And I Demand Justice

As far as I can tell, the Associated Press is sticking by its ridiculous and unlawful assertion that “direct quotations, even short ones” are copyright infringements and result in lawsuit threats and DMCA takedown notices. This story led us…

CAM-007 Blog&News  says…

The Associated Press to set guidelines for using its articles in blogs

The Associated Press, one of the nation’s largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing…

Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews  says…

DTM copycats at it again part 8

One of the great fears in the blogosphere is that smart people are actually reading your stuff. This puts pressure on you to 1) perennially come up with unique topics of relevance to a disparate group of readers, and 2) not rely on what Rick…