With this experience, I am not surprised by the latest controversies surrounding the AP. Apparently, the AP doesn’t want anyone, anywhere, to quote them without explicit permission. Even if a blogger can legally quote an excerpt from an article according to the fair use clause of copyright law, the AP feels it can make its own rules. Unfortunately for the AP, us bloggers, and the internet as a whole, don’t care much about following rules that aren’t legal (and even those we bend as much as we can). If anyone out there feels the need to complain, make sure you write them a letter and send it in the mail. They still haven’t figured out the whole email thing yet.