Associated Press Sues Bloggers For Quoting News

The AP has issued 7 Cease and Desist orders against bloggers on The Drudge Retort. AP's Irene Keselman claims

AP considers taking the headline and lead of a story without a proper license to be an infringement of its copyrights, and additionally constitutes "hot news" misappropriation.

Of the 7 articles AP holds in violation of its IP rights,

None [...] contains the full text of an AP story or anything close to it. They reproduce short excerpts of the articles -- ranging in length from 33 to 79 words -- and five of the six have a user-created headline.

Is Newsvine next?

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