Relax, Bloggers. The AP Isn’t Out to Get You
Clipped Fresh — By Christopher Spencer on July 24, 2009 at 4:14 PMRelax, Bloggers. The AP Isn’t Out to Get You : CJR.
COMMENT: I think, judging from this article, it’s site like News From the Rock that the AP would target since they just cut and paste other people’s content, stealing entire posts from the Arkansas Times blog and others.
FROM THE ARTICLE: [The AP] has no intent to nail individual bloggers for linking to stories or quoting headlines. It’s going after wholesale theft of its content by websites trying to make a profit off of it.
“We want to stop wholesale misappropriation of our content which does occur right now—people who are copying and pasting or taking by RSS feeds dozens or hundreds of our stories.” Seagrave tells me. “Are we going to worry about individuals using our stories here and there? That isn’t our intent. That’s being fueled by people who want to make us look silly. But we’re not silly.”
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