Posting Associated Press (AP) Stories

[Spurs Brazil]

Hey Kori I have a doubt.

Can we post a stories from Yahoo, with the link from Yahoo but it's an AP Storie?

Like this one:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...v=ap&type=lgns

Thanks

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Hey Kori I have a doubt.

Can we post a stories from Yahoo, with the link from Yahoo but it's an AP Storie?

Like this one:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...v=ap&type=lgns

Thanks

It's still an AP story.

[spurster]

Please folks, a reality check.

(a) Copyright is a law. If something is copyrighted, you should not copy it. Just because it's the Internet doesn't mean it's magically isolated from the law. You all seem to think that the AP are just being s and trampling on your rights and needs. It's actually the other way around. Quit your ass whining.

(b) Copyright is a real issue that means dollars. Businesses make money from copyrighted works -- either by selling the work, or by selling advertising attached to the work. When you copy a copyrighted work and make it available to others without those monetizing flows back to the business, they lose that money! Yes they care about this.

(c) Fair use is a defense, not a right. It's what you say to the court when you are sued, or what you say to the ISP when they take your content down. Copying a whole article, or a part of it, and posting it for no other reason than to have others be able to read it, is not fair use.

According to some old do ent no one pays attention to anymore, the primary intent of copyright is "to promote the progress of science and useful arts", not so someone can make money.

Anyway, in most cases, there is only a short quotation with a link to the full article. It is su iously similar to how students are taught to write essays, i.e, use and cite sources. I guess according to AP, schools are teaching students to be copyright scofflaws because they probably quote more than 4 words at a time.

[The Franchise]

As you may or may not have heard, the Associated Press (AP) is in a battle with bloggers/websites that re-post (or portions of) their articles. They are filing lawsuits and take down notices to websites who are doing it.

It's probably going to turn into a big mess and I think eventually AP will back down a bit. But it is what it is right now.

Therefore, you shouldn't post AP stories anymore. They are actually charging for copying as little as five words from their stories. http://license.icopyright.net/user/o...AGE&urt=nullit

So, if you see an AP story and want to post it in the forum, just link to it.

Thanks,

Kori

Those greedy little assholes.

[Extra Stout]

Here's what will happen:

1) The AP will lose almost every court case regarding this issue.

2) People will simply post information from different sources

3) The AP will start to decline in influence

4) They will lose more money

5) At some point they will freak out, lift the quoting restrictions, and pretend like it never happened.

Moves like this are done by incompetent leadership who don't understand how to monetize the information they distribute on the internet. Something similar happened at the New York Times.

[Brutalis]

Today in Baghdad,

-AP

Sue me!