Cory Doctorow: Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations"

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

Cory Doctorow says it perfectly

The people pushing for stronger IP laws, seeking to criminalize consumer behavior and who want to charge you for quoting more than 5 words from a news article:  "are would-be aristocrats who fully intend to return us to a society of orders and classes, and they’re using so-called “intellectual property” law as a tool with which to do it. Whether or not you have ever personally taped a TV show or written a blog post, if you think you’re going to wind up on top in the sort of world these people are working to build, you are out of your mind.

Comments

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I've been following this one avidly; it more or less destroys even academic citation let alone average 'there was a story that said x' posts. Though how the bloody hell they're going to police this is beyond me. I can see a day when media corporations use most of their staff to track down copyright 'violators' rather actual produce media.