AP to negotiate with sham "Media Bloggers Association"
Making Light (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
This weblog does not belong to the Media Bloggers Association. This weblog had never heard of the Media Bloggers Association...
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Who are the "Media Bloggers Association" and what gives them to right to negotiate copyright with the Associated Press?
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
The Associated Press has promised to meet with some organization I've never heard of called "The Media Bloggers Association" to work out the details of its frankly insane proposal to sell licenses to quote five or more words from AP stories. Who are the Media Bloggers Association? Turns out it's mostly one guy, some right-wing attack-blogger who hangs around on the lecture circuit and ran a blog devoted...
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AP takes on blogosphere — sort of
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
It all started with a letter to news aggregator Web site Drudge Retort in which the AP requested that the site remove seven posts with quotes from AP stories. From there, it blew up into yet another full-on Internet conflict between Big Business and the Little Guys.
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Burningbird's RealTech: Mobs 2.0 and the AP
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
I've withheld writing before on the AP fooflah, primarily because writing counter to the Mob is about the same as throwing a sandbag on a levee that's already broken . Now the Mob is descending on the Media Bloggers Association because Rogers contacted that organization for legal advice, and the organization's lead knows the AP folks. The noise is that the Media Bloggers Association doesn't represent...
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TechCrunch UK on Sky News - The Associated Press debacle
TechCrunch UK (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Last night Sky News asked me to comment on the Associated Press move to stop sites quoting AP articles (BTW TechCrunch has now banned linking to AP stories. Payback sucks): More from Mike A. on this.
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AP has a point, but not with me
Okiedoke (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
As a blogger that often reproduces excerpts from commercial media, perhaps I should be worried about this: Can Associated Press control the blogosphere? To citizen journalists out in cyberspace, AP’s proclamation against one little aggregate site (much smaller in comparison to, say, Digg, etc.) rang like a shot across the bow of fair use, especially after [...]
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"Liquid Conversations" @ Supernova: Rise of the Comment Mashup DJ Artist & The Share Pimp
Master of 500 Hats (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Our recent Liquid Conversations panel at Supernova covered some interesting territory about how blog posts & particularly comments are becoming more distributed, shared semi-privately among friends & followers. in particular, i think there's a really interesting conversation (heh) that's becoming more important around the role of what i call the Comment DJ Mashup Artist, or the Share Pimp -- that is,...
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Wiki Universal Edit Button
Ross Mayfield (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Yesterday at Supernova's Liquid Conversations panel I asked what people were doing to make a better and more usable user experience across tools. There wasn't much of an answer. Today, UniversalEditButton.org was launched. Pete Kaminksi, my co-founder and CTO blogged...
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ThreadsML reborn
Marc's Voice (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
A few years back Steve Yost , Ben Hammersley, David Weinberger , Danny Ayers, Shelly Powers, Jason Shellen, Jay F, Mark Carey , Jon Lebkowsky and myself (and others) participated in a mail list/conversation about the notion of a standard for representing conversations. We called it ThreadsML and the web site and archive of the mail list are still around . I seem to remember that a message board that...
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The AP-Blogger Imbroglio Jumps The Pond
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
The controversy over the Associated Press trying to create its own rules about bloggers quoting from its headlines and articles, above what the law already provides, is now a news story in England. In the video above, Sky News interviews TechCrunch UK editor Mike Butcher about the imbroglio. He points out that as [...]
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Something Is Rotten In Denmark: The A.P., NYTimes and MBA Love Triangle
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
I’m not normally one to subscribe to conspiracy theories, but something is just plain rotten in this whole New York Times/Associated Press/Media Bloggers Association love fest. As I wrote earlier today, the New York Times just won’t stop defending the Associated Press and their position that quoting from their articles is a copyright infringement (it [...]
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G-spot is a "liquid conversation"
Loïc Le Meur (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
This morning Dave McClure asked me before a panel at Supernova to come with an example of a great "liquid" conversation to show on the panel, and I did not hesitate a second to show a great conversation that happened...
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Who Is The AP Meeting With?
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
The "Media Bloggers Association," who the AP said they would meet with to establish "standards for online use of AP stories by bloggers," doesn't seem to be on the level. Here's what Teresa Nielsen Hayden's digging turned up: The Media...
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VOTD: Superbad: The Action Movie Trailer
/Film (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
SuperBad: The Action Movie Trailer by RM18CPR The Pitch: What if SuperBad was an action movie? RM18CPR remixed a SuperBad movie trailer as if the R-Rated comedy were an epic-level action film. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature [...]
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2008-06-20 Spike activity
Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: Clear thinking science writing Carl Zimmer discusses the evolution of the mind in a video lecture. Pure Pedantry looks at a new study on serotonin and rejection in the Ultimatum Game. The increasingly excellent Frontier Psychiatrist has a good post on neurosyphilis . The New York Times has a brief piece on the neuroscience of schizophrenia with...
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I Wouldn't Belong To Any Club That Wouldn't Accept Me As A Member
telescreen.org (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Have you caught the flap about the AP vs. bloggers? So the AP, in flagrant dismissal of the "fair use" doctrine (Title 17, Section 107, U.S. Code), is declaring war on bloggers by saying that any quotation of their copy...
