Why I Won’t Pay The AP One Red Cent

Courtesy Donklephant  Tue, 06/17/2008 - 9:17pm

Recently, the AP decided to get all legal on the bloggers over at The Drudge Retort and demanded that content containing AP reporting be taking down, citing Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

The content in question ranged from between 17 and 79 words (yes, that’s it), and the AP apparently thinks the The Drudge Retort’s posts violated their copyright.

Not only that, they wanted something a commenter had posted taken down. Yes, a commenter who had quoted an...


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