The AP hooks up with Microsoft to battle Google

Tom Curley, CEO of The Associated Press was in Hong Kong recently where he would tell anyone who would listen that the times are a changing and Google had better watch out. During the Xinhua Beijing ... continue

AP offers to sell the hot news while it’s still hot

Hot news available to the highest bidder or the one’s most willing to cough up the money to be first in line. That’s the newest money making idea to come out of the Associated ... continue

Fail: AP has granted us a license to quote Voltaire

James Grimmelman posted earlier today that AP granted him a license to quote Thomas Jefferson as part of an exercise to prove the stupidity of AP's attempts to crack down on copyright by charging those who use ... continue

AP’s DRM – just another boatload of crap

In light of the recent news about how the Associated Press was going to wrap all its news in some fandangle new kind of DRM which they weren’t going to talk about it anymore ... continue

I for one welcome AP’s war on links and fair use

With AP declaring all out war on links and fair use, the chorus of dissent has been unsurprisingly negative in return. Everyone from bloggers through to senior media journlists have called the move stupid through to bat-shit ... continue

Would someone please give the AP the facepalm

Even within archaic systems and services there are some that are even more out of touch with reality and do everything they can to perpetuate old and outdated ways of doing things. The Associated ... continue

The AP paints itself further into a corner

I might not be the biggest Google fan around but there are some arguments used against the search giant that, even at face value, are ridiculous. Such is the case with the fight between ... continue

AP issues C&D to AP affiliate for embedding official AP YouTube videos

The Associated Press (AP) have issued a cease and desist against an AP affiliate radio station over the station embedding official AP videos offered for embedding on YouTube. AP said in its C&D to WTNQ-FM 104.9 in Lafollete, ... continue

Newspapers Last Stand: AP declares war on fair use, blogs

The Associated Press (AP) has declared war on news aggregators and bloggers, in what could be the last stand for the newspaper industry. In a speech at the AP General Meeting, AP Chairman Dean Singleton told the ... continue

AP fights back, sues Shepard Fairey

The Associated Press (AP) has countersued Shepard Fairey over its claim that Fairey breached AP's copyright in his famous Obama Hope image. The copyright dispute first emerged in early February, when AP issued a statement claiming that it ... continue

Ironic: picture taking banned at Shepard Fairey exhibition

Obama Hope poster creator and street artist Shepard Fairey is the focus of a survey currently on at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. Nothing out of the ordinary, except ironically, given he appropriates the work of others, ... continue

Shepard Fairey suing AP over copyright allegations

Obama poster artist Shepard Fairey apparently doesn't like allegations from AP that he breached their copyright with his iconic poster, so he's suing them. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan says that Fairey did not ... continue