Say Anything Blog

Mark Steyn:

If you use Associated Press photographs to point out that AP pix from the Middle East seem awfully staged and that their local snappers seem to see themselves as court photographers to the new Caliphate, the AP legal department will shut you down.

But, if the Associated Press goes to “Kristen“‘s website, cut-and-pastes personal photographs of the happy hooker, and distributes them around the world without paying her a dime, well, that’s “fair use”.

I think the distinction here is actually having a legal department.  When you’re a multi-million (billion?) dollar corporation with an entire department of lawyers you can sort of make your own rules.