A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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aking 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.
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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.
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Search engines and news aggregators contend that their brief article citations fall under the legal principle of fair use.
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Each article — and, in the future, each picture and video — would go out with what The A.P. called a digital “wrapper,” data invisible to the ordinary consumer that is intended, among other things, to maximize its ranking in Internet searches. The software would also send signals back to The A.P., letting it track use of the article across the Web.
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AP gets ready to play rough with news aggregators and search engines - and with the notion of fair use.
