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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David Earl would rather you not know and not let anyone say anything about it

Posted on April 7th, 2007 by TechDigger

Congratulations to Jaime Castillo for bringing into the light what others obviously wanted to keep in the dark.
MySA.com: Metro | State
Breaking a notable period of silence, lawyer/lobbyist David Earl responded promptly Wednesday morning to a column questioning why he and an associate hadn’t yet registered as lobbyists in Austin.
Warning that he and I had “big [...]

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