Comments on: AP sends takedown letters to Drudge Retort: Do excerpts and links infringe?

By: Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » A.P. goes nuclear on fair use

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:47:27 +0000

[...] a primer on this issue, you can see these posts (first, a second, a third, and a wrap) from last year, when A.P. got into a scrap with well-known blogger [...]

By: Christian Leftist

Christian Leftist — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:47:44 +0000

So big news aggregators (Google) can copy excerpts and link to the AP articles and we can’t? Smells like crap to me.

Thanks for posting this.

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Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:10:24 +0000

[...] companies try to impose rules, like Drudge Retort take down (see Scott Rosenberg for more info). The company, Associated Press, sure is from another era and they cannot control the [...]

By: Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » AP backs off — or does it?

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:49:28 +0000

[...] first suggests that the AP has “retreated” in an “about face” after its hamhanded takedown notices sent to Rogers Cadenhead and his Drudge [...]

By: Someone please buy AP a clue | Me Too!

Someone please buy AP a clue | Me Too! — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:43:43 +0000

[...] Salon founder Scott Rosenberg points out on his blog, the AP is almost certainly wrong. I would be willing to bet that a court would find in favour of Rogers Cadenhead on virtually every [...]

By: Dave Bell

Dave Bell — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:42:53 +0000

I gather that the news wire services have similar styles, so that a subcriber can easily edit a story to fit into available space. Essentially, a simple version of the story is given in the first paragraph, followed by a series of increasingly expanded and more detailed versions.

So even a very short except may be complete enough not to be fair use.

The problem is that lawyers often seemed scared of explaining themselves, lest they ruin a later court case. They don’t want to make it easy for your lawyers to wreck their case. They’re scared of a conversation, but conversation is often the key to a blog.

And then you have the whole standard Internet can of worms about the application of local laws. “Fair use” doesn’t even exist where I type.

By: Someone please buy AP a clue | Me Too!

Someone please buy AP a clue | Me Too! — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:43:43 +0000

[...] use.’” As Salon founder Scott Rosenberg points out on his blog, the AP is almost certainly wrong. I would be willing to bet that a court would find in favour of Rogers Cadenhead on virtually every [...]

By: Morad

Morad — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:49:57 +0000

I second vince. This is a scary move by AP. I am not sure what they are thinking, but maybe AP is trying to set things on the web the way they want it.

Did AP just got new mgmt? I am pretty sure this won’t last.

By: Someone please buy AP a clue » mathewingram.com/work |

Someone please buy AP a clue » mathewingram.com/work | — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:07:19 +0000

[...] Salon founder Scott Rosenberg points out on his blog, the AP is almost certainly wrong. I would be willing to bet that a court would find in favour of Rogers Cadenhead on virtually every [...]

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:54:18 +0000

I didn’t actually ready your article, but I did read the link title and blurb on techmeme.