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[News] Associated Press Still Behaves Like Bully on the Web

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Who owns the facts? The AP and the "hot news" controversy

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| In 1918, the Supreme Court created a "hot news" quasi-property right that 
| still exists in some places today, and the Associated Press has been 
| threatening to take on the blogosphere with it. Ars digs into the "hot news" 
| historical archive to explain why the idea has always been controversial.   
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/who-owns-the-facts-the-ap-and-the-hot-news-controversy.ars

New Zealand Newspaper Threatens Blogging Critic With Trademark Infringement
Claim

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| Pete wrote in to alert us to yet another case of a lawyer taking an overly 
| aggressive approach to a cease-and-desist... and, in doing so, drawing a lot 
| more attention to the issue.   
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090506/0324494767.shtml


Recent:

The AP's Desperate Attempt To Outlaw Search Engine Links

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| An AP win could kill "fair use" and change the Internet as we know it.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/04/06/the-aps-desperate-attempt-to-outlaw-linking


Is Anything In Shepard Fairey's Image Actually Copyrightable By The AP?

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| of copyright infringement over his iconic Barack Obama poster (Fairey
| initiated the actual lawsuit, asking for a declaratory judgment that his
| image did not infringe, but that was after the AP publicly stated they were
| going to go after him for infringement), many are looking over the legal
| issues, and examining whether or not Fairey's use is fair use. In our initial
| post on the subject, it seemed pretty obvious that it was fair use, in large
| part because the AP didn't even realize it was an AP photo until someone else
| pointed it out -- suggesting that it was a transformative work, which
| represents a big part of the "test" for fair use.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090301/1246443934.shtml
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