AP cuts newspaper rates, moves to protect web news
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Associated Press unveiled rate cuts on Monday to help member newspapers reeling from declining advertising revenue and said it would sue websites that use its members’ articles without permission.
…The AP also threatened to “pursue legal and legislative actions” against websites that do not properly license news content. It said it would develop a system to track its members’ and its own news distributed online to determine whether it is being legally used.
“We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories,” Singleton said.
We already have a “no AP” policy here at Daily Pundit, and I can’t see that it has noticeably affected our ability to offer reportage and commentary on the news of the day.
I don’t expect that to change at all. It cracks me up, though, how each business seeks to protect itself with the failed music model of “rights management.”
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A.P. still gets actual money for the lousy, biased reporting they do?
Who would’ve guessed?
Yo, Singleton - what color’s the sky in that alternate universe where your (nominal) brain dwells?