OK, I just found more stuff about AP that is mind-boggling.

I found this at  Bigsole Blogspot. It seems now that AP doesn't even want their own affiliates to embed their YouTube news videos, and sent out a cease and desist to a country music radio station here in Tennessee - WTNQ-FM who was posting their content on a website.
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I'm ultra-busy this weekend, but thought I'd pop in to post some stuff concerning JKR's copyright attorney Dale Cendali.



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Attorneys with the Stanford Fair Use Project were in court today to file a lawsuit against the Associated Press in a preemptive strike because AP was threatening to sue artist Shepard Fairey tomorrow. Once again this is over the use of an AP photograph in the famous Obama pic.

First he pleaded "Not Guilty" to the vandalism charges in Boston:
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Well, here we go ~ this story just got bigger. Shepard Fairey, the artist of the famous Obama painting, was arrested in Boston on a warrant for painting Graffiti on walls and billboards. I think it is connected to THIS story about Graffiti arrests in LA. More HERE, with a picture of some of Fairey's graffiti art.


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Here are two Copyright stories to discuss:

The first comes to me via
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I had to start a new post because things are heating up.

In a new twist, TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington, who banned AP (Associated Press) stories from his blog due to the latest madness (see extensive coverage on my previous entry), has now decided to call in his own attorneys because the AP has quoted his blog without paying him a dime.  He ( Read more... )

When I first read this story, I was amused at the absurdity, but the more I looked around at what other bloggers were writing, it became clear that this was more serious than I thought.

The Associated Press, a grand old news group, has used (or misused) the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to justify sending Cease and Desist letters to blogger ( Read more... )