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AP's Pandora Box: What if Public Relations Companies Adopt the Same Approach?
Posted on June 25, 2008
Associated Press is trying to gain control over how others use its content. And it can, because fair use has no legal precedent, at least so far.Does fair use protect five words as AP offers or does it cover as much as anyone wants to quote?Because AP has raised this issue and it has taken legal steps towards defining this issue, we might very soon get a legal precedent on how much content can be quoted by others without violating copyright.This could become a Pandora's box and one that should have been kept closed.Consider this: A company releases a news release but it retains the copyrig...
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