On February 4, 2009, the Associated Press announced that it determined "that the photograph used in the poster is an AP photo and that its use required permission."

Every paper in America has run the AP photo that was taken as they pulled out: Hiram helping Tachyon into the helicopter in the background, while in the foreground Senator Hartmann waited, his face streaked with dust, yet still grim and strong, his blood soaking through the sleeve of his white shirt.

Check out the caption for this AP photo Why is "flee" in scare quotes?

The first AP photo sent by wire depicted the crash of a small plane in New York's Adirondack Mountains.

AP photo - c. January 1974 - Claudine Longet (age 32) & Spider Sabich (29)

(Haaretz), (AP photo)

But then you'd see the AP photo and it was always a I picture of some orangutan.

In March 2009, the Associated Press counter-sued artist Shepard Fairey over his famous image of Barack Obama, saying the uncredited, uncompensated use of an AP photo violated copyright laws and signaled a threat to journalism.

Da Vinci," other books fit conspiracy fixation, April 13, 2006, MSNBC (includes AP photo of Baigent)

(The complaint later refers somewhat ambiguously to a "copyright notice line" included "on" all AP photos, but in context it seems likely that this refers to a line in the metadata rather than a conventional caption.)