{"id":372,"date":"2009-08-03T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2009-08-03T11:00:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T15:00:54","slug":"the-further-abuse-of-common-sense-by-a-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/the-further-abuse-of-common-sense-by-a-p\/","title":{"rendered":"The further abuse of common sense by A.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who ever knew that the Associated Press holds the copyright on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/08\/02\/associated-press-wil-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">the works of Thomas Jefferson<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They tell me I have to use the sentence &#8220;exactly as written&#8221; and heaven help me if I don&#8217;t include the complete footer with their copyright boilerplate. Along the way, their terms of use insisted that I&#8217;m not allowed to use Jefferson&#8217;s words in connection with &#8220;political Content.&#8221; Also, I can&#8217;t use use his words in any manner or context that will be in any way derogatory&#8221; to the AP. As if. Jefferson&#8217;s thoughts on copyright are inherently political, and inherently derogatory towards the the AP&#8217;s insane position on copyright. I require no license to quote Jefferson. The AP has no right to stop me, no right to demand money from me. All their application does is count words to calculate a fee. It doesn&#8217;t even check that the words come from the story being &#8220;quoted.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/show\/135182.html\" target=\"_blank\">Radley Balko<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who ever knew that the Associated Press holds the copyright on the works of Thomas Jefferson? They tell me I have to use the sentence &#8220;exactly as written&#8221; and heaven help me if I don&#8217;t include the complete footer with their copyright boilerplate. Along the way, their terms of use insisted that I&#8217;m not allowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[52,135,38],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-media","tag-absurd","tag-copyright","tag-thomasjefferson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-60","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}