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A pretty unfair screed against Robert Cox and the Media Bloggers Association
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Online Journalism Review ceases publication
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“AP gets Outstanding Hubris in Online Pricing.$12.50 to excerpt five words on a website? Let’s take 50 percent off the top for overhead. Do any Sensible Talk readers know any reporters over at the AP who are getting paid $1.25 a word?”
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Another remarkably ill-informed screed against the Media Bloggers Association. I’m surprised to see such poorly researched stuff from Cory Doctorow of all people. Glad Mary Hodder, Liz Sabater and others weighed in via comments to correct misinformation.
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“Now AP wants bloggers to pay — per word! — and to give them credit and to promise not to say anything bad about anybody? (Forgive me for saying so, but that sure sounds more like a muzzle of my free speech than a copyright license.)”
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Great analysis by Mary Hodder on why the recent NYT article about the AP/bloggers flap was not only condescending, but misleading. Amen!
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NYT’s Saul Hansel gets very condescending about bloggers….
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Robert Cox of the Media Bloggers’ Association explanation of what’s happened so far in the AP/Drudge Retort flap. Very opinionated, and I’m skeptical about some things he says, but worth a read if you’re following this case.
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More about how AP is undermining its own business: “If local papers skip the AP, that means the core constituency is in revolt. That will potentially be more corrosive than the fight with the blogosphere over fair use.”
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“What would the world look like without the AP? Local papers can get local content from their own networks and national, international, sports, business and other content via links. They can also enter into cooperatives — which is where the AP started”
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“AP doesn’t get to make its own rules around how its content is used, if those rules are stricter than the law allows. Like the RIAA and MPAA, they are trying to create property rights that don’t exist today and that they are not legally entitled to.”
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Jarvis to AP: “I don’t give a damn about your guidelines. I have my own.The point of fair use and fair comment is that there can be no set guidelines. AP should start using our linking and quoting guidelines rather than its homogenization practices.”
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“If the AP doesn’t want bloggers quoting their stories, why make RSS feeds available?”
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“Eight of Ohio’s top newspapers are sharing content in a cooperative effort called the Ohio News Organization, or OHNO. The arrangement will allow the papers to sidestep the AP. Could this system be a lifeline for struggling news organizations?”
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Analysis of the legal aspects of the AP/bloggers flap, by a respected law professor: “Unless everyone – the AP and bloggers alike – steps lightly here, copyright law could end up doing a lot of damage to both the blogs and the press. Let me explain .
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