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AP hits site with DMCA claim AP have their legal vampires chasing bloggers. I blame Hilary Rosen.
Rogers Cadenhead, founder and publisher of The Drudge Retort, has been Cease and Desisted by AP News for publishing fragments of their syndicated news articles and reports.
Yes, fragments, not the whole articles. Go to Rogers' site to read the reasons given by AP.
Adding a quote to a blog post is very much like the sampling of a hook or a beat on a song. It's why so many people were opposed to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. It's not only that albums like Beck's Odelay or Public Enemy's Fear Of A Black Planet would never had happened. Documentaries, archival works, opinion or scholarly writing would be all but non-existent if it means that now journalists, bloggers, historians and scholars would need to pay publishing houses for every single quote and/or sample they need for their work.
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More about the AP copyright takedowns against Rogers Cadenhead
One of the things I failed to mention in my previous post was that the AP wouldn't be sending take downs if it wouldn't be hurting financially. This is all about money and all about how they go about making that money and it's absolutely related to SEO (search engine optimization) and how online media that quote them may end up ranking higher than them in searches.
Two years ago AP inked a deal with Google that basically turned Google into a content provider that instantly turned the search engine and news aggregator into a direct competitor with the very newspapers and journalism sources that Associated Press charged for the privilege of syndicating their news online. The excuse was that Google wanted to go into the content business and was partnering up with AP for the creation of new services.
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AP hits site with DMCA claim AP have their legal vampires chasing bloggers. I blame Hilary Rosen.
Rogers Cadenhead, founder and publisher of The Drudge Retort, has been Cease and Desisted by AP News for publishing fragments of their syndicated news articles and reports.
Yes, fragments, not the whole articles. Go to Rogers' site to read the reasons given by AP.
Adding a quote to a blog post is very much like the sampling of a hook or a beat on a song. It's why so many people were opposed to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. It's not only that albums like Beck's Odelay or Public Enemy's Fear Of A Black Planet would never had happened. Documentaries, archival works, opinion or scholarly writing would be all but non-existent if it means that now journalists, bloggers, historians and scholars would need to pay publishing houses for every single quote and/or sample they need for their work.
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More about the AP copyright takedowns against Rogers Cadenhead
One of the things I failed to mention in my previous post was that the AP wouldn't be sending take downs if it wouldn't be hurting financially. This is all about money and all about how they go about making that money and it's absolutely related to SEO (search engine optimization) and how online media that quote them may end up ranking higher than them in searches.
Two years ago AP inked a deal with Google that basically turned Google into a content provider that instantly turned the search engine and news aggregator into a direct competitor with the very newspapers and journalism sources that Associated Press charged for the privilege of syndicating their news online. The excuse was that Google wanted to go into the content business and was partnering up with AP for the creation of new services.
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