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AP Proposes ASCAP-Like Fees For the News

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the words-words-words dept.

eldavojohn writes "Techdirt directed my attention to an article where the AP discussed pressure from new devices and mediums today giving them cause to create a clearinghouse for news — much like the music industry's ASCAP — to 'establish an enforcement and payment system.' You'll notice that the story I am linking to and quoting is an AP story ... would Slashdot then be required to pay these fees? We have seen DMCA take down notices and fee discussions before from the AP."

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  1. What does Obama have to do with it? by digitaldc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Republican Sharron Angle more like, where she gives the questions to the reporters BEFORE they ask them back to her?

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    1. Re:What does Obama have to do with it? by digitaldc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Man that article infuriated me, thanks for sharing! ;P

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    2. Re:What does Obama have to do with it? by Chrisq · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Hey, is that different than stuff pulled by the Bush White House? Or for that matter, Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller having his security team handcuff reporters for asking questions he didn't want to answer?

      Sure - they didn't have God, justice and the American way on their side.

  2. Re:Even better: by Bill_the_Engineer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm more worried about some extreme republicans (backed by the Tea Party BTW - I'm looking at you Joe Miller) that has expressed the desire to repeal the 17th amendment to get rid of the direct election of senators. Why try to distract us with your made of crap, when we have actual things to worry about?

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  3. Re:Even better: by Chrisq · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "sex with adolescents, zoophilia,"

    Because for one, by law adolescents cannot legally consent to a sexual relationship with an adult (depending on various states law) and animals are incapable of consenting. This is an old, tired, and idiotic argument.

    But what about adolescent zoophiliacs?

  4. Re:Even better: by Zeek40 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So you're a homophobic libertarian?

  5. Re:Even better: by Pojut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just to play Devil's advocate here, doesn't this mean that the inability to consent is merely an arbitrary limit that has nothing to do with actual capacity for consent?

    yes.

    Especially since it differs state-by-state or country-by-country - for example, are 17-year-old North Dakotans somehow less capable of consent than 17-year-old South Dakotans?

    This is where things get murky. States have the right to make their own laws regarding this topic, but at the same time it creates an arbitrary discrepancy not based on reality, but rather based on legislation.

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  6. Re:Sad to say it, but they'll actually win a lot by Pojut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mods, please put my comment at offtopic.

    With my own site, I will often link to stories that I find interesting (or that I think would be interesting to my readers.) I'm always sure to include where I found the story as well as a link to the story...I will sometimes offer up a couple of sentences showing my own opinion, but generally I'll just point the reader in the direction of the original article with a very short overview on what the article covers.

    The way I see it is this: if I didn't write it, I should be doing everything I possibly can to make it obvious that I didn't write it.

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