The AP Will Sell You a "License" to Words It Doesn't Own

The Laboratorium: The AP Will Sell You a “License” to Words It Doesn’t Own:

I paid $12 for this “license.” Those words don’t even come from the article they charged me 46 cents a word to quote from (and that’s with the educational discount). No, they’re from Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Isaac McPherson, in which Jefferson argues that copyright has no basis in natural law.

via Boing Boing