Wednesday, June 18, 2008

A Note to Bloggers and Others

Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations

The AP, known in some circles as Al-Qaeda Partisans or as Allah’s Propagandists, in
"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....
(Source)

Clearly, this is a Stalinist attempt to limit or destroy "fair use" and free speech by a group of elitists. As with others, I intend to deprive AP of its attempted extortion fees and urge others to do the same.

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