After sending a cease and desist letter to liberal news website The Drudge Retort citing copyright violations, the Associated Press is, for now, backing off efforts to get the site to pull headlines and copy quotations from the wire service, which it claims are not covered by Fair Use provisions. That the entire blogosphere reacted to the AP's move by taking a big publicity shit on it probably helped bring about the retreat. [NYT]

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