Associated Press is a news organization which was an integral part of the Internet but is increasingly getting its knickers in a twist over the way its content is spread, shared, and diluted around the Web
After threatening to sue blogs which dared quote lines from AP articles, it has now turned its attentions to video. Which led it to send a cease and desist letter to one of its affiliate radio station after it embedded a video from AP’s YouTube channel.
We here at Web TV Hub embed online videos on a daily basis. In fact, without them we’d cease to exist in our current form. Some of the videos we embed are from YouTube, and it’s perfectly legal to embed this content. In fact, any company uploading content to the Google-owned site has the capacity to disable embedding.
AP doesn’t do that. Instead it has a YouTube channel with thousands of videos on – all of which are embeddable. This video explaining the situation leaves me incredulous at the path AP is taking. Here is a company set to sign its own death warrant in the face of the Internet.
