Hypocrites
Now, I’ve not really followed nor particularly given a crap about this AP blogger con job. But it looks like they’re considering charging bloggers for content:
In the name of “defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt” the Associated Press is now selling “quotation licenses” that allow bloggers, journallers, and people who forward quotations from articles to co-workers to quote their articles. The licenses start at $12.50 for quotations of 5-25 words.
Like Rusty says, they’ve gone from dismissive of blogs to concerned. But that’s not the funny part, this is:
Now, in a slightly ironic twist, the AP is taking content from a blog site. Namely, mine.
In a news item about the e-mail from Judge Kozinski’s wife that I posted on this site, an AP article lifted numerous passages.
I counted 154 words quoted from my post. That’s almost twice the number of words contained in the most extensive quotation in the Drudge Retort.
So am I going to be an ass and threaten to charge them, or sue them, or demand that they remove the quotes? Of course not. They benefited from my content and I benefited from their link.
Oops. I think $10,000 per word ought to cover it.
