Monday, June 23, 2008

AP going after bloggers

The Associated Press claimed that it was ready to change to face the new Internet world–and that meant not just being a gatekeeper, but joining in the conversation. As noted at the time, AP execs said all that, only to immediately follow up with plans that looked like it was trying to become a new type of gatekeeper. It didn’t help that the company had also just sued VeriSign’s Moreover division for linking to AP stories along with a title and a tiny excerpt. That sort of thing is clearly fair use–but the AP doesn’t seem to think so. And now, it’s expanding its target list. Rather than just going after the big aggregators (surprisingly, Google settled), it appears that the Associated Press is going after bloggers for merely posting a linked headline and a tiny snippet of text from the article.

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