The Associated Press want's to charge bloggers for excerpts

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The Associated Press want's to charge bloggers for excerpts

Post by greggh » Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:04 am

Well, they're completely out of their minds...

http://license.icopyright.net/user/offe ... 9-11-08-34

It will cost you $12.50 to quote as few as 5 words from an article. I would quote their full rate list here, but I don't think I could afford it.

Read more here. http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/ar ... 15888.html

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Re: The Associated Press want's to charge bloggers for excerpts

Post by eddie » Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:56 am

So if you say their name are you technically quoting them?

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Re: The Associated Press want's to charge bloggers for excerpts

Post by thenixedreport » Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:54 am

Well the AP can go screw themselves as far as I'm concerned. It's called Fair Use, and I'd love to see them go after everybody.

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Re: The Associated Press want's to charge bloggers for excerpts

Post by allix » Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:49 am

There are 100s of new sources on the web , nothing to worry about.
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Re: The Associated Press want's to charge bloggers for excerpts

Post by reine » Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:56 pm

allix wrote:There are 100s of new sources on the web , nothing to worry about.
yes, drop the buggers!

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