Fox News Tells AP Not To Use Clips From GOP Debate; AP Apparently Unfamiliar With Fair Use
from the no-surprise dept
The Associated Press has a history that suggests it doesn’t like fair use, even though its reporters and staff rely on it constantly. Yet, perhaps the AP is finally putting its money where its mouth is and will no longer rely on fair use at all. As Tim Lee points out, in this video clip the AP put together of the GOP presidential candidates’ debate, there is no footage of the actual debate shown, and the AP says (at about 28 seconds) that “Fox News Channel did not allow AP to select excerpts of the debate for use in this online video story.”
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Comments on “Fox News Tells AP Not To Use Clips From GOP Debate; AP Apparently Unfamiliar With Fair Use”
Gotta give props for the AP – they’re learning to practice what they preach.
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Honor among thieves?
I’m guessing they will feel free to use the works of little people.
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Keep in mind as well that Fox doesn’t have a lot of networks that are friendly towards them. Considering as pointed out before that the AP tends to have a pretty deceitfully hypocritical streak, it wouldn’t surprise me if some lone AP reporter just wanted to make Fox look bad.
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More likely Fox was just returning some of the ass pain the AP has been giving everyone else. I’d have told them a heartfelt GFY too after some of the shat they’ve pulled.
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“it wouldn’t surprise me if some lone AP reporter just wanted to make Fox look bad.”
I doubt they need any help, they do a fairly good job themselves.
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Fox knows there is a lot of ammo for the other side, which may or may not be the AP.
They want to shape the news… not report it. This has become a problem in mainstream news on-line comments also. They (media “moderators”) are “censuring” in the name of moderation and when someone doesn’t like a comment, even when it makes sense, is reasonably argued and contains no names or profanity…it is “flagged” and it is removed quickly.
I’m banned on Bloomberg, PBS, and censored significantly on CNN, especially CNN Money. They simply cannot argue and debate truthfully, openly, because often their arguments fail under analysis. Is that big brother controlling them?
Courts are doing the same thing (ignoring reasoned argument and pleadings) and fraud is prevailing often.
Fox relies on fair use just as much as others do, and “denying” another news provider seems likely to come back and haunt them. Why didn’t the AP use the video clips anyway and stand up for their basic fair use rights?
Rope-a-dope?
No CLIPS for YOU!
It would seriously hamper their ability to steer polls and the primaries if people actually saw what went down.
No CLIPS for YOU!
It would seriously hamper their ability to steer polls and the primaries if people actually saw what went down.
I think Gamefreak claimed copyright on those clips
With Cain’s closing speech quoting Pokemon it seems likely.
Hahahahahaha
is all I have to say about these two giants of our modern media.
Because anyone that watched the debate could see what a laughing stock the Republicans are. Fox being the Republican network wanted to protect their candidates from being exposed as nutjobs. The less people that see them the better.
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“Because anyone that watched the debate could see what a laughing stock the Republicans are. Fox being the Republican network wanted to protect their candidates from being exposed as nutjobs. The less people that see them the better.”
This sounds like a reasonable hypothesis
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What I was going to say. The debates where a bizarro insane-fest suitable only for the mentally deranged. Fox news and the GOP receive no benefit for showing the debates. If anything it would hurt the pro-war neo-conservative stance as Ron Paul actually came out the frontrunner in the debates and thoroughly embarrassed Bachmann and whoever the #2 guy is. I’m not a fan of Ron Paul in the general sense, but if I had to vote for anyone currently running from the two crap-parties, I’d vote for him.
Fox news actually removed the results of the opinion poll after the debate which showed the results heavily in his favor.
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I’m bugfuck craxy, and even I wouldn’t step into the current GOP primaries. I’d be too sane.
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Does this mean that the rest of the networks are Democrat Networks??
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No. The other channels are news channels. Fox “News” isn’t a news channel. It’s a Republican chennel.
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You are correct they are not Democrat they are liberal and Fox is conservative except hard news is fairly unbiased.
I think that the reason is the the debates were not “news”, as much as a program produced by Fox for the Fox networks. Think of it as “entertainment” rather than news.
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So clever. Please, just keep writing so we can all enjoy more of your unique wit. Idiot.
Propaganda
Think about it – Fox knows that it’s fair use. AP knows that it’s fair use. What is the point of pretending otherwise?
Well, you have two copyright-maximalist organizations, who want to eliminate fair use. Why not pretend it doesn’t exist, so as to convince anyone watching that it doesn’t exist?
There is a word for this: propaganda.
Easy
Sometimes this stuff is just too easy to find.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDSs_XFmacc
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Thank you Any Mouse.
Let’s cut and paste this all over the web…….
Fair use styley…..
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just found a torrent on TPB…
Better quality… 874mb
Third GOP Debate 2012 ( misnamed as Ohio )
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Well, as nice as it is to see them practicing what they preach, it won’t last long. Someone will notice that blogs continually outperform the AP on a MORE regular basis when reporting on the same issue. If the AP is truly handicaps itself in this way, it will only serve to quicken their irrelevance and demise.
Fair use applies to all. No permits required. Irritating to see a “Goldline: The only gold company Glenn Beck recommends.” ad underneath all of this – as if Glenn Beck wasn’t a payed shill. Glenn Beck? Drech. A madman tilting at windmills.
Fair Use is fairly straight forward...theoretically
Lemme quote from the U.S. Copyright Office –
“Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.”
Maybe the AP is subtly reminding us that they’re not news reporters?
AP is subtly reminding us that they're not news reporters
My wife, a journalist, explains to me that the AP doesn’t even have an office in our state. They have no vested interest in bringing balanced news in my community. A small staff simply operates it as a business from another state, choosing what they want to pass on and what they don’t. The comment about them respecting Fox request rings true as a way to eliminate “fair use”, at the expense of their readers.
Let me ask you Americans
WOULD YOU want to be the next president with a 16.5 trillion dollar debt?
AP are a bunch of Progressive Tools
The AP doesn’t care about fair anything. FOX on the other hand did what was right and did not allow a bunch of anti american or anti free speech people get there hands on video so they could doctor it up so it looked like the candidates said one thing when they really did not. I swear FOX is the only semi honest news station out there the rest flat out LIE.
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That’s pretty funny, keep up the good work.
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Since when do “sponsors” of public events have exclusive copyright? Were the Iowa organizers so desperate that they made some contractual agreement?
Listen to the crowd reactions to answers…Paul was a hands down winner.
I watched MSNBC News a few minutes ago and they didn’t even mention Paul. Who owns/runs MSNBC for them to “shape” the news, not mentioning Paul
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Every time I think people couldn’t possibly be this delusional, someone like you shows up to prove me wrong.
Question
Since these people are running for public office, should/would not any “clip” of them be public domain? As FOX is suppose to be providing a public service so that information from the debate is disseminated to the public.
If I were shareholder of AP I would be having a word with the board members right soon.
Smear Fox News
I agree with many of the other commentators that grabbing clips is pretty standard practice and this report seems created just to smear Fox News as if it’s some sort of Pravda of the Republican Party. Very strange report.