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Lawsuits Won't Save The AP's Business Model
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... , Apr 8, 2009 06:49 PM [image] The AP's peevish bid to become, as TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld puts it , "the RIAA of the newspaper industry," is off to a bad start. The AP sent a cease-and-desist letter to one of its affiliates, country radio station WTNQ-FM in Tennessee, directing it to stop posting videos from the AP's YouTube channel on its Web site. (The AP could have disabled video embedding but didn't.) The AP is mad as hell at content aggregators and isn't going to take it anymore. Of course, as Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera points out in ...
We're all aggregators. Get over it, AP.
Between the Lines —
... in a post today that all benefits for having content quoted and linked from around the Web are clear. It sends traffic to their sites. Said Rivera: For AP and News Corp. to discourage quoting is a clue that they don’t really get the Web and are in danger of shooting themselves in the foot. Need another example? TechCrunch reports today that an AP executive threatened an affiliate radio station - an affiliate! - for embedding an AP video from its official YouTube page on the station’s site. Apparently, the executive - when told of embed codes for YouTube videos - was unaware ...
AP Threatens Affiliates For Embedding Its Own Videos
dailywireless.org —
TechCrunch says an A.P. Exec Doesn’t Know It Has A YouTube Channel and Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos.
Here is another great moment in A.P. history. In its quest to ...
Associated Press threatens AP affiliate over YouTube channel
Boing Boing —
... its videos can spread virally across the Web, along with the ads in the videos."
Strovel: And we're an A.P. affiliate for crying out loud! I stumped him on that one. . . . What is really shocking is that they were shocked that they've got a YouTube channel that people are embedding on their Websites. He seemed shocked by that. 'Oh, I am going to have to look into that" is what he told me.
Grantham: What an idiot!
Strovel: I know, I know.
A.P. Exec Doesn't Know It Has A YouTube Channel: Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos ...
Linkpost | 4.9.2009
TechBlog —
... • A.P. Exec Doesn't Know It Has A YouTube Channel: Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos - A TV station executive twitters about arguing with an AP lawyer, who didn't know about AP's own YouTube channel. The station is an AP affiliate. Also ...
AP Threatens Affiliate Over YouTube Embed
AppScout —
... Internet free speech activists live for moments like that. The Associated Press, which has been on something of a litigious hot streak, as of late, recently sent a cease and desist letter to WTNQ, a country station in Tennessee--an AP affiliate, mind you--for embedding videos from the Associated Press's official YouTube channel. ...
AP YouTube Content "Misappropriated?"
WebProNews Feed —
... "In its quest to become the RIAA of the newspaper industry, the A.P.’s executives and lawyers are beginning to match their counterparts in the music industry for cluelessness," says Erick Schonfeld. ...
AP Threatens to Sue AP Affiliate for Embedding Official AP YouTube Vids [Idiocy]
Gizmodo —
... station accused them of "stealing our licensed content." Here's a quote from an interview from the obviously frustrated station manager: And we're an A.P. affiliate for crying out loud! I stumped him on that one... What is really shocking is that they were shocked that they've got a YouTube channel that people are embedding on their Websites. He seemed shocked by that. "Oh, I am going to have to look into that" is what he told me. Wow. Just, wow. [TechCrunch]
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Newspaper Controversy Roundup
Screenwerk —
... There are lots of pieces today on newspapers in the wake of Eric Schmidt’s address to the NAA and the AP’s (partly irrational) anti-piracy rampage. Here’s a roundup with some comments: ...
Great Moments In AP Protectionism: Demands Takedown Of Videos It Purposely Shared With Affiliate
Techdirt —
... . The AP, smartly, has a YouTube channel, where it puts up a bunch of AP videos, with the embed code enabled. An AP affiliate in Tennessee reasonably embedded some of those videos... and were promptly accused of "stealing" the AP's licensed content and ordered to take it down. There are so many things wrong with this situation it's difficult to know where to start: ...
links for 2009-04-09
Jarrett House North —
... Wonder how many web CMSes use hyperlink based deletes and no access control?
(tags: funny security web)
A.P. Exec Doesn’t Know It Has A YouTube Channel: Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos
OMFG. When even the ...
