Associated Press: We Are Not Targeting Bloggers

Yesterday, we brought to light that the Associated Press had begun charging for the republishing of its articles, starting at $2.50 per word. The news was heavily shared and came to as a shock to many, if the 80+ comments in our last article is any indication.

Today, the Associated Press reached out to us to clarify their position on iCopyright (the product they’re using to charge for content) and on licensing its content. They explained that the form has never been aimed at bloggers quoting content and that it’s unrelated to the controversy surrounding the content registry system, which aims to find what it considers illegitimate use of its content on the web.

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  EBay-owned payments service PayPal has said that its vision is to become the “electricity” for e-commerce, i.e., the underlying technology for all payments on the web…
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  The founders of photo sharing site Photobucket, Alex Welch and Darren Crystal, are leaving News Corp./Fox, we’ve confirmed. The two sold Photobucket to Fox Interactive in May 2007 for around $300 million…
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  Earlier today, it came to light that Chicago-based Horizon Realty Group was suing one of its former tenants, Amanda Bonnen, for $50,000 over a single tweet. While filing a $50,000 lawsuit for a 140 character comment is just shocking…
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  A round of testing for Australia’s Internet filters has concluded. Five of the nine participating ISPs are happy with the results, even though only 15 customers from one decided to take part in the test.
  Although not without controversy…

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• Palm Analysts, Best Buy Suffering from Pre-Mature Elaboration
• Aussie net filtering trial deemed a success despite problems
• Twitter Begins Filtering Links
• #Hyatt4Good Mashable Tweetups This Week in Chicago, Denver and LA
• PayPal blackout hits e-commerce
• Photobucket Founders To Leave News Corp.
• FTC Commends Schmidt For Stepping Down – Then Steps Up Investigation Into Google/Apple
• Amazon Needs to Make the Kindle Available Beyond Amazon.com: Report

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