Ap:
The ongoing Associated Press saga continues to unfold as the AP has published a page of guidelines regarding how much money a person should fork over to directly use as little as a five-word excerpt on a blog.
Yesterday we chronicled the AP's drama with the entire blogosphere as the media giant said that it wants to establish guidelines for content use by blogs and today a web form has been stumbled across by Making Light outlining just how much the AP wants to charge for use of its content.
It's priced by the word, and using a 5- to 25-word excerpt costs $12.50 with a 251-word or longer excerpt costing a ridiculous $100.
This ordeal reminds me a lot of the fight against piracy. No matter how much the AP tries, it will never be able to curtail the entire blogosphere, just as the RIAA will never be able to completely eliminate piracy. The big question remains: Will the AP's reputation begin to resemble that of the RIAA? One certainly hopes not, but its attack on bloggers over excerpts makes that likely, if not inevitable. Until this mess is all sorted out, paraphrasing is your friend.
The AP's reputation is already in a shambles, and rightly so. I'll just paraphrase AP when exposing its fascist agenda on FascistMedia.com. It was bloggers like bradblog.com and blackboxvoting.org that exposed how democracy had been compromised and votes could be rigged on electronic voting machines, as every major university computer science department confirmed, while the fascist war-profiteering Associated Press utterly failed to do so. Now, the Associated Press is aiding and abetting war criminals with its blackout of the 35 Articles of Impeachment. The good news is that AP IS QUICKLY BECOMING OBSOLETE and good riddance. Bye bye AP. Welcome Rawstory. com.