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Re: [News] Fair Use-hostile Associated Press Shows Its Hypocrisy

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____/ Homer on Wednesday 24 June 2009 21:04 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> AP: Others Who Use Our Work For Free Are Stealing... Now Who Wants To
>> Provide Content To Us For Free?
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
> [...]
>> | 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"?
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> This is a perfect example of how knowledge is inherited, cumulative,
> and derivative, and therefore can never be legitimately claimed as a
> person's (or company's) exclusive property. To do so is a blatant lie.

Some say that AP is "exploiting" the people it writes stories about.

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