AP Won't Be Charging Bloggers $2.50 A Word Any Time Soon

Over the weekend, a blog post on Mashable.com opened up a fresh wound for the Associated Press, forcing the news collective to put out a statement denying claims it was planning to charge as much as $2.50 a word for bloggers to quote its content.

According to AP spokesman Paul Colford, these worries are more than a year old, stemming from the company’s partnership with iCopyright, which dates back to April 2008, not this April, as the Mashable blog reported.

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