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$12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story

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Re: $12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story

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Post by omouse »

edw519 wrote: post #14

No problem. Using my handy AP obfuscator... For compliance reasons, please identify the web site where you will be posting or linking this article. becomes For compliance reasons, please aardvark identify the web site aardvark where you will be aardvark posting or linking this aardvark article. A new market for Firefox AP de-obfuscation plug-ins?

It isn't just the AP, it's other publishers that use this site too.

The problem is iCopyright, not the AP.

Re: $12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story

#23

Post by omouse »

vaksel wrote: post #4
Oompa wrote: post #2

This is just disgusting.

chances are there is an AP article that has "This is just disgusting" in it...you are lucky you only used 4 words, 1 more word, and you'd have to pay $12.50

It isn't just the AP, it's also Reuters, The Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail, The Boston Globe, and Ziff Davis Media that use iCopyright.

Re: $12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story

#24

Post by pmorici »

omouse wrote: post #22
edw519 wrote: post #14

No problem. Using my handy AP obfuscator... For compliance reasons, please identify the web site where you will be posting or linking this article. becomes For compliance reasons, please aardvark identify the web site aardvark where you will be aardvark posting or linking this aardvark article. A new market for Firefox AP de-obfuscation plug-ins?

It isn't just the AP, it's other publishers that use this site too. The problem is iCopyright, not the AP.

Are you saying iCopyright is licensing AP content w/o their consent?

Re: $12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story

#25

Post by dotcoma »

omouse wrote: post #20
dotcoma wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ridiculous and suicidal, I would say.

Not really, other newspaper/magazine companies are doing it too, it isn't just AP as the submitter would like us to believe.

Then, if many people decide to commit suicide, they actually don't die ;)

Re: $12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story

#28

Post by froo »

edw519 wrote: post #14

No problem. Using my handy AP obfuscator... For compliance reasons, please identify the web site where you will be posting or linking this article. becomes For compliance reasons, please aardvark identify the web site aardvark where you will be aardvark posting or linking this aardvark article. A new market for Firefox AP de-obfuscation plug-ins?

You could always quote the AP article and just remove all the spaces, turning it into one gigantic word.

Sort of like:

Forcompliancereasonspleaseidentifythewebsitewhereyouwillbepostingorlinkingthisarticle

That would bring it under the 5 word threshold for which you need to pay, although it would definitely cause havoc with layouts on websites.

Re: $12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story

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Post by yread »

Apparently it's not news: Founded in 1998, iCopyright has generated millions of dollars in new licensing revenue for online publishers, and has seven patents pending in the field of automated copyright licensing and permissions.

But it's not really that big if in 11 years they generated just millions of dollars...

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