AP: tech coming to stop "wholesale theft" on 'Net - Ars Technica

Robert Cox of the Media Bloggers Association, which helped Cadenhead, noted that, prior to this notorious case, Retort had indeed posted various AP articles in their entirety, which is what had first drawn the company's ire.

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Bridis did acknowledge the importance of fair use. "Because we do it too, necessarily," the AP news editor conceded. "If the New York Times has a story, we may take an element of it and attribute it to the Times and build a story around it."

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Returning the complement, it should be mentioned that AP provides terrific coverage of the Federal Communications Commission, my usual beat around here. I'm willing to bet, however, that Ars isn't about to launch a search-and-maybe-threaten bot against the many bloggers who magnify the site with their commentaries on our posts (and which may even include a chunk or two of Ars content).

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