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No they are trying to chrage them for doing so...
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First I don't have a blog as I am too busy as an eBusiness consultant to invest the time it takes to run one.

And actually if AP went ahead with its insanity I would probably make money as the new media companies adapt their business models to avoid the dinosaur crushing them in its death throes.

But you would be a loser as they send your library the bill for the links to their websites on your home page. Not to mention how it would reduce your patrons access to the information on the Internet. Perhaps in its goodness AP will grant libraries an exemption, but I wouldn't count on it.

You know the Internet has revolutionize the access people have to knowledge. Once you needed to live in a major city or near a major university to have access to foreign papers, academic journals and global information. Now even the smallest library in a rural community has the potential to access that information via the Internet. You are even able to access the course materials that universities like MIT have put online free. It will be a shame to see the clock turned back to the age of darkness just so a mega corporation is able to increase its profits.

And don't kid yourself the the "talents" will see any of it. They won't. Their pay will be the same. That is why its puzzling a libertarian struggling with a tight budget of all people would support what AP is trying to do.

You mention not allowing the local critic posting a video of your play on youtube. What is your plan to prevent the parents of the kids performing posting their videos and pictures on Facebook, Youtube and other social networking sites? Are you going to collect all cell phones and cameras at the door? Or give them a paper warning them you will sue if they do?

And if they do post it and its not protected but on an open website why shouldn't the critic be allowed to link to it? Or should he just ask his readers to google it?

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