{"id":192922,"date":"2009-02-05T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/05\/friends-dont-let-friends-link-to-the-ap\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T23:24:00","slug":"friends-dont-let-friends-link-to-the-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/05\/friends-dont-let-friends-link-to-the-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends Don’t Let Friends Link to the AP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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_<\/span><\/span><\/span>_<\/span><\/span>AP Photo__________<\/span>“Hope” Poster<\/div>\n

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For a while now, I have been boycotting the Associated Press<\/a>, because they established a policy to threaten legal action over copyright for people who link to them and quote a sentence or two.<\/p>\n

With one notable exception,*<\/sup> I have avoided their stories, and used Google News to find an alternate when I found a story of theirs.<\/p>\n

Well, the Associated Press moron brigade is at it again, with their suing Shepard Fairey<\/a>, the artist who created the Obama “Hope” poster, because he based the poster on an AP Photo.<\/p>\n

As you can see, it’s not a tracing, it’s based on a photo, and clearly<\/span> fair use. The author took the expression, and you can find dozens of pictures with a similar expression, and little else from the photograph, and what’s more, it appears that the AP may not even have right to the photograph, as the photographer, a stringer named Mannie Garcia, never signed a contract with the AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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2) Where you either an employee, or a freelance photographer, as defined by their contract, for the AP when you took this image?<\/span><\/p>\n

I was a temporary hire, filling in for a staffer at the AP. It is my understanding that I was neither a freelancer nor a staffer, but rather a temporary hire. I have never been an AP staff employee, and no, I have never signed an AP contract.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

3) So, you own the copyright to the image?<\/span><\/p>\n

The ownership of the copyright is in dispute, as per the AP. It is my understanding that since I was not a staffer, and was not a freelancer, and did not sign any contract, that I am the owner of the copyright, but I am in discussions with the AP over this issue.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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<\/span>Needless to say, I will continue not linking to Associated Press stories, and using a Google\u00ae<\/sup> News search to find alternates.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>When via typo, they referred to Joe Lieberman as the 2000 Vice Presidential p<\/a><\/span>R<\/span><\/a>ick<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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