AP Gets Loonier About Copyrights — In the Meantime Don’t Excerpt From Them Unless You Have $$
By Mona
At AoTP I wrote about the wackiness at AP vis-a-vis copyrights, and it seems that entity is getting even more bizarre in the face of unhappy reaction. That wire service is proposing a fvcking schedule charging bloggers per word excerpted:
The pricing scale for excerpting AP content begins at $12.50 for 5-25 words and goes as high as $100 for 251 words and up. Nonprofit organizations and educational institutions enjoy a discounted rate.
Guys. Guys. Ya ever heard of “fair use†doctrine? So far you’ve mostly been picking on small bloggers, but The Great Orange Satan is taking you on, and vows to keep excerpting, and just did. (Won’t do it here, cuz we can’t afford to defend ourselves in federal court even where winning is 95% assured, which is the heavy-handed leverage the AP sickos are relying on.)
But. What if we use some liberal and libertarian — and hell, even right-wing — email lists and get tons of A- and B-list bloggers to excerpt the same AP quote on the same day, hmmm? Carefully selected by a copyright lawyer to constitute fair use?
Comment by ChrisWWW —
June 18, 2008 @ 12:55 am
Are these old media companies trying to self destruct? They should have learned from the mistakes of the music industry.
Comment by Kevin Carson —
June 18, 2008 @ 2:58 am
Count me in.
Comment by Jennifer —
June 18, 2008 @ 11:12 am
I’ll do it, too! Especially if those five words are somehow insulting.