[Commons-Law] Fwd: [A2k] AP faces copyright row with bloggers

[Pranesh Prakash]

This seems very interesting.

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From: Barbara Stratton <Barbara.Stratton at cilip.org.uk>
Date: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 19:09
Subject: [A2k] AP faces copyright row with bloggers
To: "A2K List (a2k at lists.essential.org)" <a2k at lists.essential.org>


The US news agency Associated Press has found itself at the centre of a
furious debate over the fair use of material by bloggers after its lawyers
issued a takedown notice to a small, independent news site that it claims
had quoted too heavily from its news stories....
Guardian 16/06/08
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/16/digitalmedia.pressandpublishing

See also

IPKat
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2008/06/copyright-and-blogging-ap-drudge-retort.html

Information World Review http://blog.iwr.co.uk/2008/06/is-the-associat.html

NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

Barbara Stratton
Senior Policy Adviser
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, UK

CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
Tel: +44 (0)20 7255 0500 Fax: +44 (0)20 7255 0501
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