I completely understand why you would back off in the face of such threats, given your position.
Powerlineblog.com is written by lawyers, so they don’t seem to have much problem with publishing photos.
Wasn’t it only a year ago that TMZ.com was being threatened with lawsuits and now they are on TV?
I’m not a lawyer, but it seems to me that if Michelle Malkin and everyone else on the internet can use photos, you might be able to as well. If you have any “grabable” assets, though, and lack the legal resources to fight the AP, it’s probably better to lay low.
I wonder, though, whether the AP targeted you just because you were publishing their photos or… because you were busting the MSM over their agenda-driven common practice of blithely publishing photos of “dustless” stuffed bunnies carefully posed on top of debris created by a missile.
I also wonder whether maybe you should write to other bloggers who may have received the same AP package that caused you to pull your stuff. If you haven’t reached out to others who are trying to do the work you are doing, then you are probably operating in the dark. And we all instinctively have a fear of the dark.
