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- inactive, on 05/07/2009, -0/+5Oh ***** Please.. the AP steal stories off the net left right and centre and publishes them days later in their out of date newspapers.. if they claim to own the facts of the stories they are publishing then the person whom the story is about surely deserves a cut of the money the AP makes by publishing that story.. not so? Because without the action of that person there would've been no story..
Does the AP really want to go down this road.. publish a story about me and you'd better cough up or go to copyright infringement jail!! - Regulator980, on 05/07/2009, -0/+4While I would choose to have information freely, I can see why the AP would want to protect it's "hot news" especially when it took so many man hours to investigate the topic. Maybe I'm reading this all wrong but, I'm not at all comfortable with the AP having a legally-sanctioned monopoly on any "hot news" information especially when normal copyright laws don't apply. They're walking a very fine line here and I really don't think they should be going after bloggers.
It's my personal opinion that the AP isn't always a very reliable news source when it comes to "hot news". With the dying newspapers thinning out their staff, there's no independent investigative reporting anymore. All I see are recycled AP news stories everywhere and with all the information becoming a homogenized point of view on the world. - amabaie, on 05/07/2009, -0/+2Interesting question. Is it the "facts" or the work gathering them that AP wants to protect? I have seen arguments like this before. When shaving cream is brought across the border in pressurized canisters, does the company have to pay high import fees for shaving cream or lower import fees for "potential" shaving cream (since it is not really shaving cream in its pressurized form).
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