"Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license)"
"In the name of "defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt" the Associated Press is now selling "quotation licenses" that allow bloggers, journallers, and people who forward quotations from articles to co-workers to quote their articles. The licenses start at $12.50 for quotations of 5-25 words. The licensing system exhorts you to snitch on people who publish without paying the blood-money, offering up to $1 million in reward money (they also think that "fair use" -- the right to copy without permission -- means "Contact the owner of the work to be sure you are covered under fair use.").
It gets better! If you pay to quote the AP, but you offend the AP in so doing, the AP "reserves the right to terminate this Agreement at any time if Publisher or its agents finds Your use of the licensed Content to be offensive and/or damaging to Publisher's reputation."
Because I EXPOSED your BIAS and LIES, AP?!
As of today, whatreallyhappened.com will no longer link to or quote any article with an AP byline. I suggest that the rest of the blog-o-sphere do the same. AP may learn a lesson as to just how much of their present audience is being driven to them by the blogs." -- Mike Rivero of whatreallyhappened.com
And I will ALSO CEASE BUYING NEWSPAPERS!!!
Why would I want to be LIED TO EVERYDAY, anyway?
NEVER AGAIN!!!!
