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AP Targets Blog Excerpts With DMCA Notices

Posted by Soulskill on from the out-of-cite-out-of-mind dept.

Ian Lamont points us to The Industry Standard, which reports that the Associated Press has filed DMCA takedown notices against news site 'The Drudge Retort' for excerpting portions of AP news releases. The site's creator, Rogers Cadenhead, has posted his analysis of the letters sent to him by the AP. Employees of the AP have defended the notices in posts on various blogs, saying, "We get concerned when we feel the use is more reproduction than reference, or when others are encouraged to cut and paste. That's not good for original content creators; nor is it consistent with the link-based culture of the Internet that you and others have cultivated so well."

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  1. fpZ 3oll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BSD aadicts, flame Os don't fear the this post up. In a head spinning It there. Bring troubles of Walnut FUCKING USELESS

  2. Re:Just another attack on Fair Use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    With his tax breaks directed only at the richest, you can expect to see more of this if Obama wins :(

  3. Re:Does this mean.. by dogbowl · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    /. would fucking bury the AP if they tried that shit here, so the answer is of course to go after someone with less means to defend them selves, get a couple of good precedents on record THEN go after the big boys. Methinks you aren't that familiar with the Drudge Report. It is most definitely one of the 'big boys'

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  4. Re:You are also confused by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Considering the unlikelihood of the /. editors actually editing an article, reading "Retort" as a typo was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.