<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9262d96f-a47f-45ac-972e-6701fa747392/D8A9EF91-BC17-4EE1-B47A-589D667E6BE2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on-ap-stories-theyre-banned/" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on-ap-stories-theyre-banned/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on-ap-stories-theyre-banned/"><H1><A title="Permanent Link to Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They’re Banned" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on-ap-stories-theyre-banned/">Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They’re Banned</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on-ap-stories-theyre-banned/"><P><IMG alt="" class="snap_nopreview shot2" src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/apbanned.jpg" />The stories over the weekend were <A href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080613/0117561394.shtml">bad enough<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.34.0.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> - the Associated Press, with a long history of suing over quotations from their articles, went after <A href="http://drudge.com/">Drudge Retort<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.34.0.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> for having the audacity to link to their stories along with short quotations via reader submissions. Drudge Retort is doing nothing different than what Digg, TechMeme, Mixx and dozens of other sites do, and frankly the fact that they are being linked to should be <A href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/06/12/fu-ap/">considered<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.34.0.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> a <A href="http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/06/13/someone-please-buy-ap-a-clue/">favor<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.34.0.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on-ap-stories-theyre-banned/"><P>After heavy criticism over the last few days, the A.P. is in damage control mode, says the NYTimes, and <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin">retreating<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.34.0.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> from their earlier position. But from what I read, they’re just <A href="http://www.wordyard.com/2008/06/15/ap-backs-off-or-does-it/">pushing<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.34.0.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> their case further.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on-ap-stories-theyre-banned/"><P>They do not want people quoting their stories, despite the fact that such activity very clearly falls within the fair use exception to copyright law. They claim that the activity is an infringement.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D8A9EF91-BC17-4EE1-B47A-589D667E6BE2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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