Digital civil rights groups asked a federal court in New York Friday to reject what they call an attempt by the Associated Press (AP) to restrict Fair Use of content on the Internet.
"If adopted by this or any other court, this view would sharply curtail the essential role fair use plays in facilitating online innovation and expression, restricting the use and development of services that allow users to find, organize, and share public information, services that depend on making intermediate copies, and even personal consumer uses such as time-shifting," argued a "friend of the court" brief filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Public Knowledge and the Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society.
The brief was submitted in a lawsuit between the AP wire service and news clipping service Meltwater of Norway.
Service called 'parasite'
When the AP filed the lawsuit against Meltwater in February 2012, the wire news service's president and CEO Tom Curley called Meltwater "a parasitic distribution service that competes directly with traditional news sources without paying license fees to cover the costs of creating those stories."
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