AP Harasses Own Member Over AP Youtube Videos

DrEldarion writes "The Associated Press, who has been acting very bipolar lately about Google News (they get paid by Google for their content, and then complain about Google 'stealing' that content), has another issue with not knowing what their association is up to: they set up a channel on Youtube, and then threatened an AP affiliate for embedding that content."

Comments

Re:No future..

[Anonymous Coward]

If this isn't a reason for far-reaching copyright reform, I don't know what is.

True but be careful what you wish for. There are some extremely rich vested interests who would like nothing more than to be given the chance to find additional revenue streams by legal manipulation.

That's a problem with ill-gotten gains in general - they give additional financial leverage to the very people you don't want to give it to.

Contrast that with how capitalism should work - people who are most productive accumulate resources that expands their influence.

Re:Signing its own death warrant

[lucas_picador]

The problem is that AP doesn't want to stop Google from indexing them, they just want to be paid more.

Exactly. Like I said in the AP story two days ago:

It's even more ridiculous and pathological than that: the AP is simultaneously whining about how aggregators link to their articles and also about how search engines DON'T link to their articles. This is typical schizophrenia from an industry that is in hysterical denial because the world has changed and their business model no longer works. They can't even articulate what they want; they just want to go back to the way things used to be, when Mommy used to play with them and feed them all day. Embarrassingly infantile.

A friend of mine tells stories about her little brother, who used to hate taking a bath as a little kid, alternating between "I'm freezing!" and "It's burning my skin off!" every few seconds as excuses to try to get out of the tub.

Re:Ominous

[je ne sais quoi]

Let's hope that these organizations all go bankrupt before that. I heard once that often in repressive situations, no reform or anything like that really happens until the progenitors are all removed from power and sometimes that only happens when they die of old age. So how long do we need to wait for people who grew up with the internet and free information to come into positions of power? I'm in my early 30s and I was surfing bbs' while growing up, so maybe another ten years or so, so when people like me are in their 40s?