The AP might have a point on copyright, but they are blowing it with us.

I think the AP may just have fired the first volley in their own Waterloo (and maybe the MSM as we know it) with their recent policy fiasco.  The AP will soon learn that, meh we don’t really need them.  News is spreading around the web more freely and with NowPublic on the scene even reporting is getting hyper-local again.
In sifting through the deluge of posts on this I really liked Jeff Jarvis’ statement:
In Saul Hansell’s NY Times report on the AP affair, they only dig themselves deeper, saying they don’t want us to quote their stories but to summarize …read more