[A2k] AP faces copyright row with bloggers

[Barbara Stratton]

The US news agency Associated Press has found itself at the centre of a fur=
ious debate over the fair use of material by bloggers after its lawyers iss=
ued 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=3D1&=
partner=3Drssnyt&emc=3Drss&oref=3Dslogin

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

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