The Associated Press would love to conquer the web, but there's one little problem: they're not quite clear on how it works. The AP recently demanded that a radio station in Tennessee take down videos embedded from the AP's very own YouTube channel.

A vice president from the AP's office in Chicago sent WTNQ, which also happens to be a member of the AP, a letter asking them to stop posting the AP's YouTube videos on its website. Frank Strovel, and employee at the radio station, gave an interview in which he describes how he called the executive, a VP of affiliate relations, who he discovered was not even aware that the AP had a YouTube channel.

By posting a video to YouTube, the copyright holder must grant a license that allows anyone to embed the video on their own website, unless they choose to disable the embed function. The AP has not disabled the embedding function.

Paul Colford of the Associated Press sent out this email explaining the situation:

"There was a misunderstanding of YouTube usage when the Tennessee radio station was contacted by the Associated Press regarding the AP's more extensive online video services. No cease and desist letter was drafted or sent by AP to the station at any time. The AP was trying to offer the station a superior service for their needs."

Strovel says that the AP did demand that they take down the AP's YouTube videos, and that they hardly offered "superior service." Strovel published an exceprt from the email he received from the AP exec:

" I noticed you are posting our video content with out a license and have to ask you to remove the AP video content from the site ASAP. If you would like to know more about our web services please contact me."