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For example, Markos Moulitsas, founder of one of the largest liberal websites online called the Daily Kos, is going head to head with them hoping they will take this to court. Kos as he is known, quoted 120 words from an AP article and then states, “Hey AP — that’s 120 words. Have your lawyers call my lawyers.”
Lots of blogs are calling for boycotts of AP content. Not me. I’m going to keep using it. I will copy and paste as many words as I feel necessary to make my points and that I feel are within bounds of copyright law (and remember, I’ve got a JD and specialized in media law, so I know the rules pretty well). And I will keep doing so if I get an AP takedown notice (which I will make a big public show of ignoring). And then, either the AP — an organization famous for taking its members work without credit — will either back down and shut the hell up, or we’ll have a judge resolve the easiest question of law in the history of copyright jurisprudence.
Enter Michelle Malkin, a popular conservative website, has been quoted extensively by the AP, who never bothered to link to her original pieces, nor paid her a dime for the usage.
Patterico’s Pontifications has been quoted extensively by the AP as of late…. with no payment and in another post he gives people one more option for fighting back against the AP, to use their quotes, within the bounds of the law’s fair use policy, and just do not link to them at all, he says.
Don’t refuse to quote them.
Just don’t link them.
There’s no law that says you have to link what you quote. Just use a quote that fits within fair use, do your commentary, and deny them the link.
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AP is an endangered species