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It’s odd that so few of the stories about the AP and charging for content point out that the AP itself is a cooperative owned by a group of newspapers. Therefore, when the AP talks about charging some online customers more than others, what they are really saying is that they will band together to [...]
It involves adding metadata to content. Yawn. Of course for the plan to work they would have to convince search engines, portals, and any other potential referrer to actually use the metadata, which is always a challenge when the benefits are to the content owner and not the distributor. Tags identifying the author, publisher and [...]
We hate bloggers, we love bloggers, hate ‘em, love ‘em, hate ‘em… need them. Of course there is great irony in this excerpt of a speech Michael Oreskes gave recently but if you read the full text you will see something more subtle at play within the AP, which is a realization that the business [...]
UPDATE: Here’s an update from the AP on the AP. If the AP doesn’t want bloggers quoting their stories, why make RSS feeds available? And insofar as “telling bloggers what is acceptable”… nuh-uh, the AP doesn’t get to define their own set of copyright laws and as any first year law student will tell them, [...]