If you quote more than four words, it’s not fair use?
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by TechDigger
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.
That’s a minimum of 50 cents per word. So I owe Cory Doctorow $28.50?
Filed under: Free Speech, free press, freedom of speech, freedom of the press
