http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010341.html
[Zeppnote: I expect that AP, should they get this through, will
quickly discover a major loss of relevance, with their only market
being a rapidly dwindling readership among newspapers and widespread
disregard on the web. You WILL see a lot more stories from
independent and foreign sources, which, given APs general standards,
would be an improvement]
The Associated Press wants to charge you $12.50 to quote five words
from them
Posted by Patrick at 03:05 PM * 121 comments
The Associated Press, having already announced its intention to harass
bloggers who publish snippets as short as 39 words from AP stories,
has now published a web form through which intimidated parties can
give the AP money in return for permission to publish as few as five
words.
In this spirit, I will shortly be putting up my own Web form through
which people can PayPal me money in exchange for my promise to not
blow up the moon.
The New York Times, an AP member organization, refers to this as an
attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and
broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt. I suggest its...
