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And Another One: CNN Found 'Ripping Off' Others' Reporting
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| Remember a few weeks back when a Washington Post reporter claimed that Gawker
| was "ripping off" his reporting, despite the fact that the Gawker piece
| linked back to the original article three times? Since then, we've noted how
| common it is for the mainstream press to do much worse to bloggers, quite
| often giving them no credit at all and pretending they came up with the
| stories entirely on their own.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090823/1712315969.shtml
Recent:
Associated Press will sell you a license to quote the public domain
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| They tell me I have to use the sentence "exactly as written" and heaven help
| me if I don't include the complete footer with their copyright boilerplate.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/02/associated-press-wil-1.html
AP Charges $12.50 To Quote 5 Words
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| The AP is known for having some fairly unconventional tactics toward the use
| of their content online. Sure, a company should be concerned with how their
| content is being used online... but how far is too far?
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/08/03/ap-charges-1250-to-quote-5-words
AP Launches Open Source Ascribenation Project
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| Meanwhile, a small suggestion to the AP: Get your legal department's
| footprints off your home page (where the top item is "Protecting AP's
| Intellectual Property"). In fact, push them to the nether regions of the
| website. It's not friendly stuff.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ap-launches-open-source-ascribenation-project
By The AP's Own Logic, The AP Ripped Off Obama
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| I must admit that I tend to disagree with a significant percentage of
| Lichtman's conclusions on intellectual property, but unlike many copyright
| maximalists, I tend to believe he's much more intellectually honest on these
| issues. His positions don't seem to come from a "more is absolutely better
| because it makes me/my clients more money" position, but he honestly tends to
| believe that greater copyright leads to a greater net outcome, and tends to
| argue reasonably about it -- though, I believe some of that reasoning, and
| the assumptions that underpin it are faulty.
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| [...]
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| No, what's not fair is claiming that any of that is the AP's to own. None of
| it. Not a single part of it was. All of that -- the hope, the way he was
| looking, was simply there. What made him choose it was the look on Obama's
| face -- which is not Garcia's creative output, and thus cannot be covered by
| copyright. In fact, the most frustrating thing of all is that Cendali
| repeatedly claims that Fairey was ripping off Garcia (and the AP), but misses
| the obvious problem with that argument: which is that if her argument is
| correct, then the AP and Garcia also ripped off Obama, since it was his
| creativity in looking the way he did and making the facial expression he did.
| Once again, such externalities are apparently only acceptable when the AP
| benefits. But, Cendali seems to ignore that, and Lichtman lets her get off,
| noting that he basically agrees with her.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090721/1828265616.shtml
Is The BBC An AP Parasite?
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| Anyway, not long after that, I saw that the BBC appears to have a very
| similar article, and it's quite clear that all they did was rewrite the AP's
| article. At one point, they do credit the AP, but the article is almost a
| direct paraphrase of the AP's. So does the AP start calling the BBC a
| parasite, too? Or does it finally realize that no one owns the news, and lots
| of publications often rewrite the news and have for ages?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090722/0126305618.shtml
Industry study claims strong copyrights fuel economic engine
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| A report released by the International Intellectual Property Alliance shows
| that copyright-related industry has been booming in recent years. But a
| closer examination of the data shows that the numbers don't add up so easily.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/industry-study-claims-strong-copyrights-fuel-economic-engine.ars
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