New York state's Democratic Committee on Thursday removed re-edited AP articles from its Web site, a week after the party accused a GOP candidate of doctoring news stories for his site. Democratic officials called the edited AP articles "excerpts." The assistant general counsel for AP said the quotation of brief excerpts may sometimes qualify as fair use under copyright law, but the state committee's postings went way beyond that.
February 17, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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New York state’s Democratic Committee on Thursday removed re-edited AP articles from its Web site, a week after the party accused a GOP candidate of doctoring news stories for his Web site.
Democratic officials called the edited Associated Press articles “excerpts.” It said the dustup was the result of a misunderstanding in January after the committee issued a press release that included an AP story about Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Weld.
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