Rogers Cadenhead, a controversial but long standing figure in the RSS community, has disclosed a DMCA take-down letter he's received from the Associated Press demanding the removal of small excerpts of AP content on his community news site Drudge.com. It's hard to take anyone too seriously who's built a site by squatting on some other sensationalist's name for ten years - but that's what we've got here, a legal spat between a smarmy little social news site and the biggest purveyors of news in bulk in the US (AP). The AP's move could impact a lot of innovation all around the web, however. Can you run excerpts of your favorite news stories around the web on your website, with links to the full sources in their original location? Standard practice is to excerpt no more than 3 lines of a story out of respect for the original author, but Drudge.com generally played within those rules and is still facing legal trouble. The practice generally is a great one: a website's visitors get exposed to the most interesting news on a given topic, selected by a trusted editorial website, that website gets cache, traffic and search engine optimization and the linked-to sources get links and traffic. Not everyone is excited about the idea, though.http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ap_threatens_news_aggregation.php
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