Comments on: AP’s online business model is completely wrong

By: Printed Matters » Gatehouse has a point

Printed Matters » Gatehouse has a point — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:01:39 +0000

[...] people are saying that this comes down to a fair use issue. I highly doubt this, as I said before when I was talking about a similar lawsuit by AP against Drudge Retort. It is fair use to reprint [...]

By: Printed Matters » New business models for news: another step required

Printed Matters » New business models for news: another step required — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:21:46 +0000

[...] in my opinion. For one thing, duplicate copies of content still wind up on multiple websites, something I complained about during the Associated Press kerfuffles earlier this year. For another, it still doesn’t give [...]

By: Printed Matters » Read all about it - times three!

Printed Matters » Read all about it - times three! — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:20:46 +0000

[...] give them the same advice I gave the AP: let only one website publish each article, presumably the one that actually did the story. The [...]

By: Printed Matters » Connecting the dots for AP 2.0

Printed Matters » Connecting the dots for AP 2.0 — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:52:52 +0000

[...] aggregate your stuff the way you want it to look. This, by the way, would also solve the problem of those nasty people who want to link to you but end up using your headlines and leads, the very things that store most of the value in a news report. So give them a different headline [...]