AP Reveals More About Unfair Use Crackdown

The Associated Press is set to roll out more details on how it’s going to crack down on the misuse of its content. Of course, at the heart of the issue is what the AP considers to be theft and what exactly constitutes “fair use.”

Matthew Lasar of Ars Technical sat down with AP news editor Ted Bridis during the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism conference on Friday.

What gets the AP really riled up, Bridis told Lasar, is when bloggers “paste an entire 800-word story into their blog.

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