{"id":170529,"date":"2010-01-12T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100107\/0251577648.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-12T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:33:00","slug":"ap-summarizes-other-journalists-article-isnt-that-what-the-ap-says-violates-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/170529","title":{"rendered":"AP Summarizes Other Journalists’ Article; Isn’t That What The AP Says Violates The Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcus Carab<\/a> points us to a rather horrifying story about a family suing a funeral home after the funeral home put their grandmother’s brain<\/i> in a bag of personal effects<\/a> and sent it to them. Yikes. But, ignore the story<\/i> itself for a moment (if you can). What was interesting from our point of view was that the story was written by the Associated Press, and it’s basically a rewrite of a story from The Albuquerque Journal. Here’s how the AP points this out:<\/p>\n


\nThe Albuquerque Journal reported on the lawsuit in a copyright story published Wednesday.
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Now, there are a few things odd about this. First… it’s an odd phrase to use: “in a copyright story.” Nearly all news stories are covered by copyright, so why even mention it?<\/p>\n

But what I find even more amusing is that if you look at the AP report, it’s basically just a quick blurb rewrite of the Albuquerque Journal story. It’s only 125 words, and just summarizes what the other paper wrote. Why is that amusing? Because that’s exactly<\/i> what the Associated Press has been claiming bloggers unfairly do to it — insisting that others simply rewriting its stories in short blurbs are violating the “hot news” doctrine<\/a>. Apparently, that doesn’t apply when the AP does it itself?<\/p>\n

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Marcus Carab points us to a rather horrifying story about a family suing a funeral home after the funeral home put their grandmother’s brain in a bag of personal effects and sent it to them. Yikes. But, ignore the story itself for a moment (if you can). What was interesting from our point of view […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}