And here’s something about a subject I supposedly don’t know about, which you claim to:

“The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author’s observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported.” ”

Make sure you don’t trip over the facts on your way out the door, fuckwad.

So the new definition of a “troll” is someone who knows what terms mean and correct you when you don’t?
If I do it twice does that make me a “fascist”?
LMAO. Just STFU about subjects you know nothing about, fool.

LMAO. What is this, your first day on the intertubes ?
You’ve never seen a blog before if you think proper attribution of news quotes is the norm rather than a rare, rare exception.

This is the appreciation shown by people who lift articles produced by professional journalists off news sites who’ve paid for the right to show them, then reprint them on their blogs as their content for which they derive traffic and advertising revenue.

Why shouldn’t you be sued for that? Music and video pirates get done for this type of behaviour all the time. What makes you special?

“It would seem as though the AP has taken to litigating bloggers’ usage of its stories under the ridiculous guise of Fair Use. ”

No it doesn’t seem like that unless you don’t know what any of those words mean. “Fair use” is a defense against a claim of copyright infringement, not grounds for pursuing the litigation.

I don’t think this case has wings (though I’m certainly not a legal expert). Media agencies pay the AP to have a news feed of their stories, those stories get published, and then the links get passed around so other people click on it; then they see the advertising from the news agency, and that advertising revenue goes to pay the Ap for their news feed services. Unless the AP doesn’t want money, I don’t see what the impetus is for this case.