Phew! (For now)

According to the New York Times,  the Associated Press is instituting guidelines on how bloggers can use their content. Jim Kennedy, vice president and strategy director of The A.P. says: "We are not trying to sue bloggers...That would be the rough equivalent of suing grandma and the kids for stealing music. That is not what we are trying to do." 

Since we at the Gamut like to make up and write our own news stories, we're not too concerned about being told to cease and desist from quoting AP stories. However, we do like to use photographs we find on the web which we credit whenever we know who took them. Sometimes they are AP photos  which we are fairly certain we could never afford to pay for. Since we're too shallow to actually read the new guidelines, we don't know how they may affect us and the fair use of their artwork. So, for now, we're keeping our sticky little fingers crossed.