this blog isnt really about politics but a recent statement about republican vice presidential candidate sarah palin struck me. apparently she doesnt need foreign policy experience because alaska is so close to russia with variations on the theme citing from seventy to 300 miles or so. without even addressing the validity of that logic to begin with it got me thinking just how far is anchorage fr...
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when it comes to matters of copyright some companies have an earned reputation as being attack dogs. they are known for filing takedown notices at the drop of a hat throwing lawsuits around at will and generally intimidating anyone that they feel gets too close to their intellectual property. though there is nothing wrong with being aggressive about your copyright especially when you make your liv...
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last night several of my web sites including the drudge retort began crashing internet explorer with the error message internet explorer cannot open the internet site ... operation aborted.ive encountered this error before and when it occurs out of the blue on a site you havent changed the culprit is usually a problem with thirdparty javascript code as cnets clientside blog explainsie does this wh...
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sometimes lawsuits demand letters andtake down notices have a larger purpose than simply making a claim against a single individual. whether or not ap intended to engage the entire blogging community in a public conversation about fair use of copyrighted news contentcontent engage them it did. now ap has settled with the original target the drudge retort while engaging in one of our most highly re...
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chances are youve heard all about the nowresolved dispute that opposed the associated press to social news sharing site drudge retort over the fair or unfair use of ap quotes. even more likely is the possibility that youve heard emotionfilled and perhaps inaccurate coverage of the affair. so this is an attempt to untangle some of the knots.the fourpoint recap clarificat ionslesson one the bl...
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it would seem that theassociated press is currently getting its nose bent out of joint by bloggers. becausejust last week ap declared all of its content even onesentence snippets off limits to bloggers. they claim that every comma every period every quote mark in an ap story is covered by their copyright. a policy that came to light after the venerable news organization sent a nastygram to the dru...
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i thought i could retire new rules but it looks like thats not going to happen. theres too many lost souls out haunting the halls of web 2.0 needing my wisdom bad. ok everybody line on the left one cross each. new rule if youre going for the world download record keep your servers going before the new release of firefox 3 there was this huge hype campaign encouraging all of us to download r...
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todo empeza hace daas con una carta de associated press a drudge retort en la que les conminaban a retirar varias entradas que contenaan citas de artaculos de esa agencia. el motivo alegado la violacian del copyright. las pretensiones de ap aunque dirigidas salo a la comunidad de drudge retort pusieron en guardia a la blogosfera estadounidense que empeza pronto a reaccionar. muchos bloggers public...
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ap backed off their threat of a lawsuits against the drudge retort a liberal site for quoting 4080 words from their articles. they now say they just want to protect their headlines and the lede from being posted elsewhere. so does that mean you can quote extensively from the rest of the article without fear of angering grumpy lawyers several websites with money have promised financial support shou...
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late thursday night ap issued the following statement after a daylong discussion of the dmca takedowns issued to the drudge retort that reached all the way up to the companys top managementin response to questions about the use of associated press content on the drudge retort web site the ap was able to provide additional information to the operator of the site rogers cadenhead on thursday. that i...
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the associated press ap has announced that the incident regarding the drudge retort dr receiving takedown notices is matter closed european journalism centre reports.the ap recently filed digital millenium copyright act takedown requests asking dr to take down blog posts that they were violating copyright laws by using quotes ithat were too long.the ap said that on thursday they were able to provi...
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it is no secret that mainstream media tends to dislike the blogosphere and many bloggers particularly political ones dislike mainstream media.however i find the current associated press assault on quotations used on the drudge retort with links mind you as short as 35 words to be 1 shortsighted and 2 the wrong thing to do for mainstream media. hat tip to will richardson and jeff jarvis.it is all ...
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cuanto revuelo que se esta levantando por culpa de un par de citas. sa un par de citas. la historia viene asa ap intima al agregador de noticias drudge retort a que retire unos artaculos porque habaan sido copiados y pegados sin autorizacian y sin citar la fuente parece. hasta aca podraamos decir que todo es discutible el derecho a la propiedad intelectual enlazar la fuente el aburrimiento de una ...
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youtube maurice hinchey lets nationalize oil house democrats responded to presidents bushs call for congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling. this was at an oncamera press conference fed back live. among other things the democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flo...
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by christopher sprigman associate professor of law the university of virginia school of lawif youre reading this post chances are good that you know how blogs work i.e. that they link to briefly excerpt and comment about online news articles from established news outlets like the new york times the washington post and the associated press.this symbiosis between blogs and mainstream media outlets ...
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do portal jornalistas na web a associated press ap vai estabelecer normas para utilizaaao de seu conteado por parte de blogueiros informou o nytimes.com nesta segundafeira 16. a tradicional agancia de notacias vai definir o quanto de suas matarias e conteados em geral os blogs e outros sites independentes poderao utilizar sem infringir leis de direitos autorais. a decisao segue uma recente aaao da...
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associated press es una de las agencias de noticias mas importantes del mundo y no se le ha ocurrido idea mas brillante que denunciar al blog drudge retort porque su editor ha incluido extractos de artaculos dicha agencia de noticias eso si citando las fuentes originales. algo que hay que tener en cuenta es que parte de los ingresos del sitio de ap es debido a las visitas que vienen de sitios tan...
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last week the associated press started a loosing battle with the website drudge retort. the ap sent dmca takedown notices telling the drudge retort to remove excerpts of ap stories they had posted on a blog. their claim is that this violated the aps copyright and linking not copying was in the spirit of the web. as you can imagine there was a swift and strong reaction from the many blogs that rout...
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recently the ap decided to get all legal on the bloggers over at the drudge retort and demanded that content containing ap reporting be taking down citing digital millennium copyright act. the content in question ranged from between 17 and 79 words yes thats it and the ap apparently thinks the the drudge retorts posts violated their copyright. not only that they wanted something a commenter had po...
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bloggers to ap youre dead to me last week the associated press began taking a very aggressive stance on the use of its content. they threatened the drudge retort with takedown notices over several items that contained very short 39 to 79 word quotes from its articles. many bloggers slammed the aps new tactics. now the new york times reports that the ap is going to set guidelines about how its c...
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wer kennt sie nicht the associated press ap zhlt als nachrichtenagentur zu den weltgrten lieferanten fr informationen in textform fr public relations und journalismus ein ideologischer kampf der kmpfe zwischen meinungsmachern. was mit den texten passiert ist in der regel nichts besonderes man verwendet die texte blicherweise in einer zeitung fr onlinemedien gelten besondere vorschriften aber jet...
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blog blogospherefair use 1500 blog drudge retort blog 39 79 jim kennedy drudge retortjim kennedy blog . related prada ost 30 2006 27 2006 iphone 01 2007 googlepagerank 31 2007 feed creative weblogging feeds at creativewe blogging.c om.......
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the ap is spoiling for a fight it cant win. it started last week when the news organization took exception with the linking and excerpting practices at the drudge retort not the drudge report a liberal social news site run by longtime blogger rogers cadenhead. you can see some examples of the posts the ap wanted taken down here but basically the posts contained nothing unusual a headline and a fai...
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