This day in WND History: Aug. 13

AP's strange ethics

Aug. 13, 2003: WND editor Joseph Farah thrashed the largest news-gathering operation in the world, the Associated Press, for unethically publishing WND's news as its own.

Farah, who has since authored an amazing expose – of the news media titled "Stop the Presses," wrote: "For the second time in a year, the AP has flagrantly misappropriated exclusive, copyright material published by WND. No attribution. No credit. No nothing. …

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"While AP is lifting WorldNetDaily copyright content seemingly at will without attribution or credit, the very same news organization has the nerve to threaten WorldNetDaily for using AP information in stories with full credit! Last May, AP's legal department threatened a lawsuit against WND for copyright infringement for using fully attributed information in our stories. This is what we call in the business 'fair use.'"

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