Associated Press loves fair use (we just wish they'd share)

The Associated Press, a organization with so little respect for fair use that they expect you to pay for a license to quote as little as five words from its articles, describes how it relied on fair use to do reporting on Sarah Palin’s memoir Glowing Rouge:

“The AP was determined to get the first copy,” Oreskes [a senior managing editor] wrote, detailing how the writers learned a store had “inadvertently placed the book on sale five days before its official Nov. 17 release date.” “They bought a copy, ripped it from its spine and scanned it into the system so it could be read and electronically searched,” he wrote.

As Rebecca Tushnet notes, this is fair use. And so is quoting the AP.

Actually, the AP likes fair use after all

(via @CathyGellis)