We Can't Quote The AP... But Can Embed Its Videos?

from the left-hand,-meet-the-right-hand dept

Mon, Jun 23rd 2008 12:17pm — Mike Masnick

The Associated Press is still insisting that bloggers shouldn't be excerpting its articles online without a license -- but apparently no one told the folks pushing AP videos. Jon Ashley wonders about this difference, noting that the AP has its own YouTube Channel, where it appears that the videos all have embedding enabled. This, of course, takes us right back to the question we asked last week concerning whether or not embedding videos can be seen as infringement. In the meantime, since the AP insists it really wants to be a part of the "conversation," can it explain why embedding videos is great, while quoting is not?

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Filed Under: copyright, embedding, fair use, legal issues
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Jake, 23 Jun 2008 @ 12:39pm

*sigh* If there's one thing sadder to behold than what happens to a company when lawyers start taking business decisions, it's a what happens to a company when really, really bad lawyers start taking business decisions.
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Al, 23 Jun 2008 @ 1:31pm

AP
I write or contribute to a total of four blogs and my policy on AP is: Who? They don't exist.

And Jake, you are exactly right.
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Anonymous Coward, 23 Jun 2008 @ 1:40pm

it's because they control the message with the videos...they just want complete control of the message
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Doug Hayden, 23 Jun 2008 @ 1:48pm

a picture is worth a thousand words...
....at 30-60 frames per second, that's 30-60,000 words per second....***counts money****
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JD (profile), 23 Jun 2008 @ 1:59pm

Who said their policies were supposed to be consistent or make sense?
Logic, apparently, is not a topic in the Journalism curriculum.
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DS, 23 Jun 2008 @ 3:21pm

This is legal, isn't it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfIVgh4OjQA I'm not going to get in trouble now, am I?
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Kamu, 24 Jun 2008 @ 3:59am

I guess the videos have AP watermarked all over them, so you are in fact advertising for them.
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