Comments on: Associated Press and blogs

By: Bene D

Bene D — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:05:43 +0000

I can appreciate the staggering losses print is going through as they move over to digital, however AP relies on the goodwill of it’s membership let alone it’s readers.

I agree Mark, AP is shooting itself in the foot. At the same time consumers can learn to abide by fair use policy.

By: Mark Byron

Mark Byron — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:29:19 +0000

The Kosian effort reminds me of a time a few years back when the Dallas Morning News got upset at linking articles rather than the main paper site and sued a web site for it; blogs proceeded to have a “Deep-link Dallas” day to protest the DaMN decision.

The AP is losing a lot of potential goodwill here, since many web sites rerun AP material. If bloggers avoid AP-using sites and linking to said articles, they’ll cost their members far more in revenue than they’d ever collect in any blogger fees, even if such fees stood up in court, which they probably wouldn’t.

By: MgS

MgS — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:17:35 +0000

Anybody else see a fishy correlation between this money-grab and the recent copyright legislation tabled in the House of Commons?

By: Rev. Mike

Rev. Mike — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:30:02 +0000

I’d personally like to try them on for size, but then I’d actually have to start writing again.