AP president: Need to curb unlicensed use of news

[cory777]

Source: Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley says an enforcement mechanism needs to be created to help curb unlicensed used of news on the Internet.

Curley made the remarks Thursday during a speech in Nashville to a training program run by Associated Press Managing Editors.

Curley says the AP has been tracking websites engaged in content "scraping," and planned to name 18 of them at an industry meeting on Friday.

Read more: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100923/world/us_news_registry

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Here comes the calvary!

http://activistnews.blogspot.com

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. That would be the *cavalry*?

[cory777]

8. I knew it didn't look right

cavalry. nt

[Botany]

2. Anybody want to get that barn door?

[lunatica]

11. That's a beeeautiful photograph!

It makes me want to do a charcoal drawing of the horse. Look at that shiny coat!

[B3Nut]

14. Here come the neigh-sayers....

<duck> :D

Lovely pic of a lovely horse!

[marmar]

3. Desperate measures from a desperate industry.

nt

[davidinalameda]

4. I wonder how many sites have linked to this story

[Tace]

5. Associated Press Is A Cooperative Business Model

It's interesting to me that AP succeeded with their cooperative business model long enough to take down their only domestic competition, United Press International, which had a commercial business model. Now, they are crying about not completely dominating the news market and being able to charge clients whatever they want.

Sorry AP. Later.

[customerserviceguy]

6. Sorry, Tommy

Information wants to be free. Good luck with that buggy-whip factory that will offer you your next job.

[onehandle]

7. "I'll give you my copy and paste when you take it from my cold, dead hands! nt

[TygrBright]

9. "Dammit, the buggy whip industry needs PROTECTION!" n/t

[Downwinder]

10. "Facts" cannot be Copyrighted.

Is AP admitting that their reporting is propaganda rather than fact?

[MineralMan]

12. That's true, but descriptions of the facts are protected under the

copyright laws. That's the essential difference. There's a simple solution, if this strategy succeeds. Simply rewrite a news account in your own words and link to the source. It takes a bit longer, but that's what we all may have to start doing eventually.

[Downwinder]

15. It is more like FOX. News does not have to be truthful except now

AP is saying it does not have to be factual.

[X_Digger]

13. What hypocrites..

Almost every site that publishes AP news has a toolbar of some kind filled with 'sharing' options.. facebook, digg, blogger, slashdot, del.icio.us, share via email, share via IM.. even this story!.