AP Targets Blog Excerpts With DMCA Notices

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."

Comments

Re:Just another attack on Fair Use

[noidentity]

Unless you steal an entire article, but just excerpt reasonable snippets, you are exercising your 'Fair Use' right under copyright law.

If you steal the article, it's a theft issue, not copyright at all, because when you steal it, the original is gone. Did you mean make an unauthorized copy?

Re:Good

[plasmacutter]

you have a peculiar notion of property.

apparently you feel entitled to own things you sold to other people just because youre a writer.

I think the people who built your house should be allowed to firebomb various rooms because they dont like how you use them, and you should be presumed guilty until proven innocent on this regard so you have no recourse when they do so.

now die in a fire you disgusting parasite on the back of society.

Re:Good

[plasmacutter]

you have a peculiar notion of property.

apparently you feel entitled to own things you sold to other people just because youre a writer.

I think the people who built your house should be allowed to firebomb various rooms because they dont like how you use them, and you should be presumed guilty until proven innocent on this regard so you have no recourse when they do so.

now die in a fire you disgusting parasite on the back of society. I have plenty of karma to burn, and i'm happy to do it to out one of the few disgusting corruptors of society who believe in forcing DRM down our collective throats.