"In the course of the students' work in researching and writing their summary judgment briefs, they and I will post items here that raise and explore the legal and policy implications implicit in the infringement claim and Defendants' fair use defense."

Just a few weeks ago, the AP used legal threats to get a photo-journalism criticism blog to stop using AP photos, claiming that it was copyright infringement. Apparently, the AP has different rules for itself than it has for others.

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled in 2000 that the use of the photos were fair use because the photos were integral to the scandal the newspaper was reporting on, and that the use was "transformative" because the news-reporting function