Quotes for Quotes
First they launched a new entertainment (read "celebrity") division, then they got caught writing Britney Spears’ obit early, now the A.P. is selling quotation licenses. I guess it’s true that newspapers are going the way of the dodo if they’re really that hard up.The lowest price: $12.50 for 5-25 words, which is a nice slap in the face of bloggers getting paid maybe a cent a word. I would quote what the A.P. said about it, but I don’t have the coin.
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submit a comment06.28.08 at 10:06 am
That’s nice that they are “requiring” liscenses for quotes….too bad they dont mean SHIT. Who do they think they are, the DMV? What’s printed in the newspaper is not protected….neither is any of the stuff printed in Heeb. You can quote to your hearts content. I’ll believe it when the Supreme Court rules on it. I can’t wait to hear the AP try to explain how free public discourse necessary to the health of Democracy can be maintained if people aren’t allowed to source the news….or how only the people with money to pay to source the news can participate in Democracy. Never. The AP needs to grow the fuck up.