AP Acts Brainlessly.

Hey, guys? Don't set up a program that 1) can't tell it's not your words being quoted, and 2) makes threats on your behalf to defend these words.

The Associated Press has become so deranged, so disconnected from reality, that it will sell you a “license” to quote words it didn’t write and doesn’t own. Here, check it out: (go here to see picture and read the rest) I paid $12 for this “license.” Those words don’t even come from the article they charged me 46 cents a word to quote from (and that’s with the educational discount). No, they’re from Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Isaac McPherson, in which Jefferson argues that copyright has no basis in natural law.

Oh, it gets better. The AP responded, and the blogger re-responded. h/t CLD.