Posted on 10/09/2009 7:44:26 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
BEIJING — The leaders of two of the world’s major news organizations said Friday that it is time for search engines and others who use news content for free to pay up.
The comments from Tom Curley of The Associated Press and News Corp. [NWS]’s Rupert Murdoch come as the media industry struggles in the Internet age. Many news companies contend that sites such as Google have reaped a fortune from their articles, photos and video without fairly compensating the news organizations producing the material.
"We content creators have been too slow to react to the free exploitation of news by third parties without input or permission," Curley, the AP’s chief executive, told a meeting of 300 media leaders in Beijing.
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The AP is going down.
They will have to stand in line. The Obama line is pretty long.
Google should simply say, “OK, fine” and exclude all AP content from their results, causing the AP to wither and die.
Keep ap sh!t off our net!
Oh the irony of a bunch of news media putzes meeting in Communist China and whining about capitalism.
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