Monday, July 27, 2009
How (And Why) to Replace the AP
The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the internet because it is fighting the link and the link is the basis of the internet.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Who Is Megan McAllister?
Police have arrested a suspect in the latest Craigslist killing incident, but his fiancée, who has defended him in messages to news outlets, is getting nearly as much attention online.
The suspect, Philip Markoff, a 23-year-old Boston University medical student, was arraigned Tuesday and ordered held without bail, according to the Associated Press.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Don’t Get All Huffy About the Huffington Post
As Mark Gimein noted last week in The Big Money, the media giants have put the Web’s journalistic “parasites”–blogs, aggregators, Google–on notice that they will no longer allow them to pinch their copy without reimbursement.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Google Responds to AP’s Tougher Stance
The Associated Press said yesterday that it will more aggressively police its content online, a move seen as a possible precursor to newspapers pushing Google and other popular Web aggregators to pay directly for news stories. In Google’s public-policy blog, a company attorney today defended the search giant’s stance on content from the AP, a cooperative owned by newspapers.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Web Networking Photos Come Back to Bite Defendants
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled “Jail Bird.”
Monday, June 23, 2008
AP/Drudge Retort “Resolution” Leaves Fair Use Questions Unanswered
This week I’ve been covering what appears to be an assault by the Associated Press on the principle of fair use. While this particular flap (which involves posts to a community site called the Drudge Retort) concerns bloggers and site users, many say it could end up having a chilling effect on journalism and free speech.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs
The Associated Press, one of the nation’s largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The AP’s copyright.
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