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In the name of "defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt" the Associated Press is now selling "quotation licenses" that allow bloggers, journallers, and people who forward quotations from articles to co-workers to quote their articles. The licenses start at $12.50 for quotations of 5-25 words.

mother****ers I owe them millions



they're out of their ****ing minds

Welcome to a world in which you won?t be able to effectively criticize the press, because you?ll be required to pay to quote as few as five words from what they publish.

Welcome to a world in which you won?t own any of your technology or your music or your books, because ensuring that someone makes their profit margins will justify depriving you of the even the most basic, commonsensical rights in your personal, hand-level household goods.

The people pushing for this stuff are not well-meaning, and they are not interested in making life better for artists, writers, or any other kind of individual creators. They are would-be aristocrats who fully intend to return us to a society of orders and classes, and they?re using so-called ?intellectual property? law as a tool with which to do it.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/17/associated-press-exp.html
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