Ars Technica has a good write up of what the AP is actually doing...and it's even stupider than I thought. Apparently, it's just a markup format that will give publishers a way to specify what uses they approve and prohibit for a given piece of text, and it's not like some publisher saying that they don't approve a use that's legal under copyright law magically overrides the law, no matter how fancy and bleeding edge 1989 the technology they use to say it might be.
Also, the AP apparently provided this helpful image demonstrating how their new technology works:
__________________
"Trans Am Jesus" is "what hanged me"
Nice clip art. Why does the news consumer wind up in a 55 gallon oil drum?
ETA: Isn't that like a disk failure alert or something?
NOTICE: This post contains highly advanced meta-data (this means DATA ABOUT DATA and it is very new) digital container packaging technology. Unauthorized quotation will be severely punished.
I was going to guess, they fill the drum with concrete and dump it at the docks, but Zehava's solution's got the whole recycling/fixing the energy solution all tied up!
I honestly don't know. The short answer is that they should probably not waste time and effort on silly document markup schemes that don't really address their problems, especially if they're going to pretend that their silly markup scheme is actually a silly DRM scheme that will both fail to address their problem and piss off their customers.
__________________
"Trans Am Jesus" is "what hanged me"
This little knee-slapper led me to the "iCopyright" (omg look how hip they are with a lower-case i in front of the word copyright that is so edgy it makes me want to go illegally download some iAlbums of iPopularMusic) Terms of Service. iCopyright is the AP's contracted licensing whatever provider:
Quote:
You shall not use the Content in any manner or context that will be in any way derogatory to the author, the publication from which the Content came, or any person connected with the creation of the Content or depicted in the Content. You agree not to use the Content in any manner or context that will be in any way derogatory to or damaging to the reputation of Publisher, its licensors, or any person connected with the creation of the Content or referenced in the Content. You shall not use the Licensed Content for any unlawful purpose, and You shall comply with all laws and regulations. Without limiting the foregoing, You represent and warrant that the Content will not be utilized in association with gambling or the distribution, promotion or sale of pornographic, racial or political Content, propaganda or product.
There will be no further mockery of the Associated Press ITT!
I wonder if they are going to offer new/better content or if it's just an attempt to get more money from the consumer.
Who ever can design a working online news/magazine charge model will win big bucks, so far it's all a bunch of whining and doing stupid things like DRM and charging for previously free content.
The guy I heard on the radio, said at one point the various media agencies talked about having a combined subscription service. That may have worked, but since we are already used to mostly ad free (or easy to ignore advertizing) and free content, that was a genie they'd have a hard time putting back in the bottle.
-- they threatened to sue Christian Forums for quoting articles in posts, even with attribution --
Gawd, I had so many arguments about AP's copyright with people at CF. I was in Erwin's ear about it all the time. And that must be 5 or 6 years ago now.
__________________
“Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”
All news services must have some kind of business model. It used to be in charging a nominal fee for a print newspaper, with most costs and profits coming from advertising. Without a business model they don't have a news service. Why should they work for free?
__________________
“Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”
Re: Has the AP Finally Lost It?
I don't think anyone would mind.
Linear Mode
