If you quote more than four words, it’s not fair use?

Posted on June 17th, 2008 by TechDigger

Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license) - Boing Boing
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 [...]

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Meet my neighbor

Posted on February 9th, 2007 by TechDigger

I often browse the letters to the editor section of the San Antonio Express News and find them quite disturbing revealing. Consider the following:
MySA.com: Letters to the Editor
Media now too powerfulThe enormous influence and power of the American mass media have never been more on display than during the presidency of George W. Bush. The [...]

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