Post by KNOWTHIS on Jun 16, 2008 13:54:17 GMT -5
I guess all of us here could be guilty of copyright infringement at least according to the AP. I don't see how they can possibly enforce this so long as you cite the proper source of origin. Every research paper that I've ever written involved footnotes and bibliography, it's no different. Also, I can’t believe that they’d be concerned with hot linking seeing as how it’s essentially free advertising. People go to great lengths to get more exposure to their websites and the AP is complaining? If this takes hold, his could definitely serve to create a chilling effect on the web.
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The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs
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The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs
The Associated Press, one of the nation’s largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.’s copyright.
The A.P.’s effort to impose some guidelines on the free-wheeling blogosphere, where extensive quoting and even copying of entire news articles is common, may offer a prominent definition of the important but vague doctrine of “fair use,” which holds that copyright owners cannot ban others from using small bits of their works under some circumstances. For example, a book reviewer is allowed to quote passages from the work without permission from the publisher....
The A.P.’s effort to impose some guidelines on the free-wheeling blogosphere, where extensive quoting and even copying of entire news articles is common, may offer a prominent definition of the important but vague doctrine of “fair use,” which holds that copyright owners cannot ban others from using small bits of their works under some circumstances. For example, a book reviewer is allowed to quote passages from the work without permission from the publisher....