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Associated Press: “It’s Okay If WE Do It.”
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| This could have been an enthusiastic Wikipedia editor, so I checked the
| history page of the article, which tracks every change. It turns out that
| Wikipedia had it first. Here is a link to the 10 July 2009 version of the
| article.
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| Let me repeat, to be clear: Wikipedia Had It First. Which means an AP writer
| or editor cribbed directly from Wikipedia, changed some words, and put it in
| the article.
|
| In and of itself, that is not the problem. Wikipedia is, in fact, fine with
| this.
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http://idealink.vijtable.com/2009/07/17/associated-press-its-okay-if-we-do-it/
Gadzooks - it's ZookZ from Antigua
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| I've been following the rather entertaining case of Antigua vs. US for a few
| years now. Basically, the US government has taken a "do as I say, not as I
| do" attitude to the WTO - refusing to follow the latter's rules while seeking
| to enforce them against others. The net result is that plucky little Antigua
| seems to have won some kind of permission to ignore US copyright - up to a
| certain point - although nobody really knows what this means in practice.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/07/gadzooks-its-zookz-from-antigua.html
Recent:
AP: Others Who Use Our Work For Free Are Stealing... Now Who Wants To Provide
Content To Us For Free?
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| The Associated Press has been going on quite the rampage over the past few
| months about all those evil online sites that are "stealing" its content,
| demanding that those who use its content absolutely must pay for it. We joked
| in response that the AP and other newspapers complaining about
| people "stealing" their coverage should actually be paying the people who
| make the news. After all, aren't they really creating the "content"? That was
| meant as a joke, but sometimes you have to wonder if people at the Associated
| Press even realize the double standard they've set for themselves.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090623/0405515325.shtml
Who owns the facts? The AP and the "hot news" controversy
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| In 1918, the Supreme Court created a "hot news" quasi-property right that
| still exists in some places today, and the Associated Press has been
| threatening to take on the blogosphere with it. Ars digs into the "hot news"
| historical archive to explain why the idea has always been controversial.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/who-owns-the-facts-the-ap-and-the-hot-news-controversy.ars
The AP's Desperate Attempt To Outlaw Search Engine Links
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| An AP win could kill "fair use" and change the Internet as we know it.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/04/06/the-aps-desperate-attempt-to-outlaw-linking
Is Anything In Shepard Fairey's Image Actually Copyrightable By The AP?
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| of copyright infringement over his iconic Barack Obama poster (Fairey
| initiated the actual lawsuit, asking for a declaratory judgment that his
| image did not infringe, but that was after the AP publicly stated they were
| going to go after him for infringement), many are looking over the legal
| issues, and examining whether or not Fairey's use is fair use. In our initial
| post on the subject, it seemed pretty obvious that it was fair use, in large
| part because the AP didn't even realize it was an AP photo until someone else
| pointed it out -- suggesting that it was a transformative work, which
| represents a big part of the "test" for fair use.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090301/1246443934.shtml
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