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Court Upholds AP "Quasi-Property" Rights On Hot News
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A federal court ruled that the AP can sue competitors for 'quasi-property' rights on hot news, as well as for copyright infringement and several other claims. The so-called 'hot news' doctrine was created by a judge 90 years ago in another case, where the AP sued a competitor for copying wartime reporting and bribing its employees to send them a copy of unreleased news. The courts' solution was to make hot news a form of 'quasi-property' distinct from copyright, in part because facts cannot be copyrighted. But now the AP is making use of the precedent again, going after AHN which competes with the AP, alleging that they're somehow copying the AP's news. The AP has been rather busy with lawsuits lately, so even though the AP has a story about their own lawsuit, we won't link to it."
Maybe they're like the NN equivalent of an AC on SD or something.
... I'm about to be sued by Associated Press for this hot news item. More at 11
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
Let us all fight for our quasi-rights while living under this quasi-dictatorship.
I suggest you read Slashdot
That being said, you're absolutely right. The full, unabbreviated name should have been in there at least once.
Indeed. I'd quote the relevant passage from the AP Stylebook regarding the use of abbreviations, but they seem to have locked it up behind a paid-content wall.
Take THAT, thriving black market for standard news industry reference materials!
Associated Press. (%Insert link to Wikipedia article.%) (%Insert random fact or two about AP.%) (%Insert funny comment to try and get modded up.%)
Ah, thank god for my Slashdot comment template engine.
I say we call Bruce Willis now, and worry about the lawsuit later!
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.
Maybe they sent themselves a DMCA takedown notice.
Now that you've already posted it in public, it's not "hot" news anymore.
... but pendants have to have something to complain about.
"That jeweler really should have made me an eighth of an inch longer"