Associated Press wants you to pay for quotes

[CptStern]

yes you!

In the name of "defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt" the Associated Press is now selling "quotation licenses" that allow bloggers, journallers, and people who forward quotations from articles to co-workers to quote their articles. The licenses start at $12.50 for quotations of 5-25 words.

mother****ers I owe them millions

they're out of their ****ing minds

Welcome to a world in which you won?t be able to effectively criticize the press, because you?ll be required to pay to quote as few as five words from what they publish.

Welcome to a world in which you won?t own any of your technology or your music or your books, because ensuring that someone makes their profit margins will justify depriving you of the even the most basic, commonsensical rights in your personal, hand-level household goods.

The people pushing for this stuff are not well-meaning, and they are not interested in making life better for artists, writers, or any other kind of individual creators. They are would-be aristocrats who fully intend to return us to a society of orders and classes, and they?re using so-called ?intellectual property? law as a tool with which to do it.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/17/associated-press-exp.html

 

[Ennui]

/sneers

They will be first against the wall when the revolution breaks.

 

[Druckles]

Please go to the Source and read the excerpt, paragraph one, eighth line, words eleven through thirteen

Cost -- $0

 

[Raziaar]

Wow... how ridiculous!

**** YOUR WORDS!

 

[Remus]

Stern you now owe them 25 bucks for the quote in this thread alone...:|
This is nuts.:|

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

**** them. What more needs to be said?

 

[kirovman]

Associated Press: "We are monsters beyond all proportion"

I may have commited libel, but at least I haven't pasted from their article. Rather, I paraphrased what I believe them to have said.

 

[CptStern]

Associated Press: "We are monsters beyond all proportion"

I may have commited libel, but at least I haven't pasted from their article. Rather, I paraphrased what I believe them to have said.

if you sign up to AP's subscription service you get 2 paraphrases (no longer than 5 words each) and one 2 word quote at a discounted price of $19.95 ..for a limited only we'll also throw in a copy of the constitution ($495.95 S/H fee applies)


...but dont quote me on that

 

[Krynn72]

CptStern, you owe Kirovman $17.50. You will be billed shortly.

 

[Muffin Man]

Well if this isn't just the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Quote-by-quote arguments with Stern will cost a fortune now! I don't think HL2.net will be able to afford it. We're witnessing the end of an era.

 

[CptStern]

I think Hl2.net should have a Stern Quote Fund ..just send cash to

c/o CptStern
P.O Box 90125,
AnyJuere Kanadia

 

[Krynn72]

That way you can pay off all your quote debts.

 

[-Psy-]

Guess the Politics forums is sinking in debt. D:

 

[CptStern]

That way you can pay off all your quote debts.

ya ...pay off debts/escape to cayman islands change identity to Lt.Stern

 

[Kula Meenur]

Associated Press can stick it up their ass

Fixeded.

 

[Que-Ever]

Oops, misquote. Can't charge me now.

actually, cell-phone speak could be an effective loophole.

 

[VirusType2]

wurd.

 

[Stigmata]

I'll probably just quote them at every opportunity and then refuse to pay any fines.

 

[VirusType2]

doesn't quoting them here on the forums fall under fair use?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use


I mean, that is why we are allowed to quote ... at all.


Associated Press is just aiming towards collecting money from publishers that quote them - as they indicated.

Maybe that is just for US and UK.

Canadian's have to pay.

 

[Kula Meenur]

Bitches don't know about lol wut?


Yes you can quote me on that. Thank you nurizeko, you made my day

 

[Kula Meenur]

^This. As long as you do correct APA format no one gives a shit for assignments.

 

[Kula Meenur]

Yeah, prolly how they would make most of their money. Bs imo :imu:


Peer referenced journal articles hehe...

 

[Azner]

BRING IT ON, NOOBS

charchar

 

[MJ12]

Damn them... damn them all to hell.

 

[Druckles]

ya ...pay off debts/escape to cayman islands change identity to Lt.Stern

Holy shit, I never woulda seen it :O

 

[CptStern]

Am I the only one who finds it slightly hilarious that the Associated Press wants tons of money for quoting their silly newspaper articles, despite the fact that starving academics have no problem with you referencing their far more in-depth, detailed and credible work, so long as you cite them correctly?

the problem is that all news originates from reuters or associated press .this wouldnt affect a newspaper it would affect all media

 

[Kula Meenur]

Then wouldn't it be Reuters International who is inditing the action?

 

[CptStern]

no, reuters has nothing to do with this


as someone already stated AP will charge media outlets (which includes blogs) for using their quoted content. News media outlets already pay AP/Reuters to run their stories. AP is a news gathering service for media