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A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web
New York Times ^

Posted on 07/25/2009 10:15:13 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web By RICHARD PEREZ-PENA

Taking a new hard line that news articles should not turn up on search engines and Web sites without permission, The Associated Press said Thursday that it would add software to each article that shows what limits apply to the rights to use it, and that notifies The A.P. about how the article is used.

Tom Curley, The A.P.’s president and chief executive, said the company’s position was that even minimal use of a news article online required a licensing agreement with the news organization that produced it. In an interview, he specifically cited references that include a headline and a link to an article, a standard practice of search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo, news aggregators and blogs.

Asked if that stance went further than The A.P. had gone before, he said, “That’s right.” The company envisions a campaign that goes far beyond The A.P., a nonprofit corporation. It wants the 1,400 American newspapers that own the company to join the effort and use its software.

“If someone can build multibillion-dollar businesses out of keywords, we can build multihundred-million businesses out of headlines, and we’re going to do that,” Mr. Curley said. The goal, he said, was not to have less use of the news articles, but to be paid for any use.

Search engines and news aggregators contend that their brief article citations fall under the legal principle of fair use. Executives at some news organizations have said they are reluctant to test the Internet boundaries of fair use, for fear that the courts would rule against them.

Mr. Curley declined to address the fair use question, or to say what action The A.P. would take against sites that use articles without licensing.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ap; associatedpress; propagandawingofdnc
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what a business model..........
1 posted on 07/25/2009 10:15:13 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Hopefully this will finish them off!


2 posted on 07/25/2009 10:17:07 AM PDT by pepperdog (As Israel goes, so goes America!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Its bad enough reading Propaganda when its free. Who wants to pay for Propaganda?


3 posted on 07/25/2009 10:17:55 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: Sub-Driver

Good luck with that.
Their articles just won’t be cited, linked or shared.


4 posted on 07/25/2009 10:19:07 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Sub-Driver
The A.P., a nonprofit corporation....

Holy irony, Batman!

5 posted on 07/25/2009 10:19:10 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Sub-Driver

should be the last nail in their collective coffin


6 posted on 07/25/2009 10:19:23 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Sub-Driver

How about Universal Access to AP Articles Reform?


7 posted on 07/25/2009 10:19:37 AM PDT by exist
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

ROFL!


8 posted on 07/25/2009 10:20:31 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Hilarious.

"I'm going to lie to you and you're going to like it."
"Well, I don't like it."
"Okay, then I'm going to charge you for it."

9 posted on 07/25/2009 10:21:08 AM PDT by PressurePoint (See you in the unemployment line, Barack)
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To: Sub-Driver
The goal, he said, was not to have less use of the news articles, but to be paid for any use.

No, that's just a rather nasty side effect.

10 posted on 07/25/2009 10:21:33 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: Lorianne
Allowing a headline and a link would steer business to their subscriber's page. Only allowing paying subscribers to use any part of an AP article will result in a withering of AP’s business eventually. Not a bad thing from my perspective.
11 posted on 07/25/2009 10:24:05 AM PDT by RicocheT
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To: Sub-Driver

THE REAL DEAL:

AP does not want FReepers, bloggers, and posters
to reveal they are nothing but liars. Liars. Liars.


12 posted on 07/25/2009 10:24:59 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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It wants the 1,400 American newspapers that own the company to join the effort and use its software.

I don't like the sound of this...

13 posted on 07/25/2009 10:26:54 AM PDT by John123 (Turn on your teleprompter Obama and read your lips... "No New Taxes!!")
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To: Sub-Driver

Most of what they write is synthesized propaganda, loaded with weasel words and designed for idiots. They are the first order of communist boot lickers.

Those are their good points.


14 posted on 07/25/2009 10:30:53 AM PDT by Luke21 (If it's the Asspress, it's usually a lie.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I run a small website locally that aggregates news articles from all over. I have been threatened with a lawsuit twice by the local AP outlet, on the grounds that my website constitutes “unfair competition”. They have threatened my twice and backed down both times.

I think if the local newspapers decided to try this hardline attitude that the AP is taking, it will be the final nail in the coffin for many if not most of them.


15 posted on 07/25/2009 10:31:34 AM PDT by Bean Counter ( Shovel ready...)
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To: Diogenesis
As a blogger, the solution presents itself: paraphrase any news story written by AP you find useful and never, ever link to it no matter where you find it posted.

Let's see how their subscribed customers like the reduced amount of indirect traffic they get on the web. All of the newspapers are suffering as it is. They get on board with this it will simply further reduce the amount of traffic they get.

Sounds like a win-win solution to their biased coverage; AP and all the rest go down in flames.
16 posted on 07/25/2009 10:32:32 AM PDT by Sudetenland (Without God there is no freedom, for what rights man can give, he can take away.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Following the RIAA strategy of “sue your fans.” With similar success, most likely.


18 posted on 07/25/2009 10:35:35 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: John123

I guess it may mean more work for us posting Freepers.

AP news stories can still be discussed here if you write a “vanity” saying I have read at NYT this and that, and express with your own words the gist of the story.
(Of course no link can be provided, but if you give enough info people can find the article themselves.)

No way they can stop that.


19 posted on 07/25/2009 10:36:50 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Bean Counter
I run a small website locally that aggregates news articles from all over. I have been threatened with a lawsuit twice by the local AP outlet, on the grounds that my website constitutes “unfair competition”. They have threatened my twice and backed down both times.

They are truly nuts. FR limits AP content to a headline, link and a few sentences. If interested in the story, I will click on a link to the article that will bring it up along with ads and links to their other articles. Forbidding even a headline and a link will ensure their content is not read at all. Throw the baby out with the bathwater, will ya.

20 posted on 07/25/2009 10:36:59 AM PDT by CedarDave (Obama's EPA wants to get rid of cows: They emit CO2 from the front end and CH4 from the rear.)
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