{"id":1264,"date":"2008-02-29T23:43:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T03:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2008-02-29T23:51:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T03:51:38","slug":"blogger-under-attack-from-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Blogger under attack from AP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blogs are aflame over <a href=\"http:\/\/snappedshot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snapped Shot<\/a> going dark because of a lawsuit from Associated Press for using their photos. I first heard of it from <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/256752.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ace of Spades<\/a>, then I got an email from <a href=\"http:\/\/lamplighternews.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/ap-goes-on-attack-free-speech-on-run.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lamplighter<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\/?entry=29096_Snapped_Shot_Snaps_Shut_After_AP_Lawyer_Letter&amp;only&amp;headline\" target=\"_blank\">Little Green Footballs<\/a> has a post up as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/confederateyankee.mu.nu\/archives\/256758.php\" target=\"_blank\">Confederate Yankee<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/mypetjawa.mu.nu\/archives\/191518.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Jawa Report<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/snapped-shot-blog-shut-down.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I use a lot of AP pictures, too, but not in the same way that Snapped Shot used them but I always attribute and link back the photos to AP and the photographer if I have the information. It appears that AP is just trying to squelch criticism of their journalistic integrity.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s easy to file a lawsuit against a poor cottage-industry blogger that can&#8217;t afford the same legal battle that a giant like AP can engage.<\/p>\n<p>I know we&#8217;ve a got lawyer or two that read this blog &#8211; if you can give Mr Ledbetter some advice or help, please contact him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blogs are aflame over Snapped Shot going dark because of a lawsuit from Associated Press &hellip; <a title=\"Blogger under attack from AP\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1264\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogger under attack from AP<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}