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.
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You beat me to it.
:)
The AP’s sh*t is the worst propaganda out there. the sooner they die - the better. Ditto NY Slimes, CNN and MSNBC which are also among the most biased Obama propaganda posing as news.
Like they have anything note worthy to say. NOT
I don’t read them anyway so I don’t think I will miss them.
Bump
I've spent over 40 years in the software field and have no idea how to add software to an article. :-)
Unfortunately, right or wrong, Free Republic has been set up or evolved to treat vanities and blog citations as "second class" posts. As a likely result, important information and AP lies that need exposure won't get the attention they deserve.
The solution.....
We have a DESIGNATED Purchaser that will report to us....we can all chip in and pay the ONE fee...they will still go bankrupt! LOL
“The AP’s sh*t is the worst propaganda out there. the sooner they die......”
They are the six fanged vampire of the news industry. They provide ADD summaries of the news with slant and bias that resembles advertising messages. You don’t even have to read it to know what is there.
But wait, I’ve been trying to learn liberal logic and I think I’ve got it down: The Constitution guarantees a free press. Therefore news is a “right” that must be provided by the government. Sounds like Obama should be paying for everyone’s AP subscriptions.
I’m with you, I can think of no way this would actually work.
I think some tech-ignorant executive team got scammed by a software salesman and just publicized that fact internationally.
Same way you add a virus to a photo or an email.
I can think of several ways. Hide some code in an embedded small transparent graphic that the lazy will cut and paste with the text would be the easiest way.
You might read the entry on Web Bugs here:
http://www.clearleadinc.com/site/internet_privacy.html
And you probably need to download Ad-Aware from Lavasoft or Spybot Search and Destroy if you don’t know about spyware.
Tom Curley
He has been president and chief executive officer of the Associated Press since 2003. He was previously president and publisher of USA Today since 1988; his brother, John Curley, was the paper’s first editor.
Curley began his career covering high school basketball for his hometown paper. He became director of information for Gannett Company in 1976
Bill Moyers talks to President and CEO of the Associated Press Tom Curley about a new press effort, led by him and others in the media business, to push for less secrecy in government. In a May 7th speech, Curley unveiled a plan for a "media advocacy center" to lobby for open government in Washington. "The government is pushing hard for secrecy," Curley said. "We must push back equally hard for openness."
Sounds like an udated FR rule may be neeed to preclude trouble saying; No using any A.P. sourced stories.
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