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Kos wants the AP to sue him.

If they've got to sue somebody.

Lots of blogs are calling for boycotts of AP content. Not me. I'm going to keep using it. I will copy and paste as many words as I feel necessary to make my points and that I feel are within bounds of copyright law (and remember, I've got a JD and specialized in media law, so I know the rules pretty well). And I will keep doing so if I get an AP takedown notice (which I will make a big public show of ignoring). And then, either the AP -- an organization famous for taking its members work without credit -- will either back down and shut the hell up, or we'll have a judge resolve the easiest question of law in the history of copyright jurisprudence.

The AP doesn't get to negotiate copyright law. But now, perhaps, they'll threaten someone who can afford to fight back, instead of cowardly going after small bloggers.

There's plenty of great commentary about the AP's crushingly stupid attempt to charge bloggers who quote them by the word, but I wanted to single out Kos here. He's the best. Not about everything. But about this thing.

Full post as published by Althouse on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).