F...the AP

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The AP is going after bloggers for posting links to their articles.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20080613/0117561394.shtml

Rather than just going after the big aggregators (surprisingly, Google settled), it appears that the Associated Press is going after bloggers for merely posting a linked headline and a tiny snippet of text from the article. In this case, Rogers Cadenhead informs us that the AP sent 7 DMCA takedown notices last week to his site, the Drudge Retort (a site that mocks the Drudge Report). In six cases, a blog post on the site quoted just a small snippet of text from an AP article (between 33 and 79 words -- nowhere near the full length of the article). In every case, they also contained links back to the original AP article. Five of the six used a different headline than the original AP article.

So, posts like this one could put The Warpath in the sights of the AP:
http://www.thewarpath.net/parking-lo...tml#post453317

Here are how a couple of other sites are responding:
http://forums.thoughtsmedia.com/f8/a...ets-89609.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16...theyre-banned/

It's ridiculous, and it's shooting themselves in the foot. What's going to happen to their web traffic if they shut everyone out?