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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