As I mentioned last week, along with Public Knowledge, Digital Media Insider, and BoingBoing, the Associated Press created incredibly strange, highly unwanted, and potentially superseded by law “quotation licenses” for their content, as a way to make money off of what should simply be a case of fair use. Worse than that, they reserve the right to revoke the licenses if they don’t approve of the use, creating a horrible chilling effect on the free press that Nielsen Hayden illustrates quite well. This week we’ve also seen it come out that the group the AP claimed (and New York Times repeated) to have been negotiating with on behalf of the blogosphere, the Media Bloggers Association, has not met with the AP, nor do they claim to represent the entire blogging world.
My supreme disappointment with an organization I used to hold fairly dear has already manifested itself in a couple rants here. Last night I decided to do something a little more snarky about it:
Announcing The First Four Words, a website which will give you the first four words off of the top AP story once or twice a day. I would give you the full headline, naturally, but that would cost me $12.50, and I’d rather spend that money on some used records and a slice of pizza.
Obviously this needs to be combined with Steve B’s Haikew site in some manner, and an actual poem written using the first four words as the first words of the lines of the poem, completely changing or explaining the news article in question.
Comment by Jared — 29 June 2008 @ 1:59 pm |
I accept that challenge, Jared. Look out for haiku wrapups when deemed appropriate.
Comment by Andy — 1 July 2008 @ 2:35 pm |