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Associated Press
Threatens Its Own Affiliate With A Lawsuit For Using AP
Content. And Then It Gets Ridiculous
Meet the Internet's
first embediciles
Associated
Press sent a cease-and-desist letter to one of it own affiliate radio
stations, WTNQ-FM,
in Tennessee, for posting Associated Press content on their website.
This sounds stupid enough, but wait! There's more!
The content in question are videos which
came from the Associated Press "official" Associated Press YouTube channel which
contains embed codes allowing anyone who wants to embed the videos into
their website and blog to do so. The homepage prominently
displays, "Embed this channel," and offers up the embed codes.
So why would they sue someone, including an affiliate, for embedding their videos?
| Associated
Press, apparently technologically incompetent regarding Internet
technology, provides unrestricted access to embed codes meant
to
allow their content to be included into any blog and website, while
simultaneously threatening legal action should anyone use them.
We coin the term embediciles. |
Embediciles
"Frank Strove [WTNQ employee],
... asked the AP why they would supply YouTube embed
codes if they didn't want anyone to use their content. Confused by this
question, the AP responded by saying it would "look into the YouTube
issue" and get back to him.'"
Now AP says they were
just kidding. It's all a misunderstanding. "The AP was trying to offer the
station a superior service for their needs."
PC World 9-Apr-2009
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