The Associated Press wants to be paid by anyone linking to their articles. My advice, stop linking to AP stories. Find another source. It won’t be worth the headache.
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.
I would suggest not linking to, citing, or excerpting any AP article from this day forward. Let’s see how much revenue they generate once they become irrelevant.
Who needs AP anyway? they are in every paper in the country. They are like a plague that you cannot escape. We go to the ‘net to avoid them, not to read them. Good riddance.
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I seldom ever click on a piece offered by ap, they invariably are more about lefty sensationalism than about news. As a news source I find them useless, with the exception that they do a pretty good job of defining who I might want to check out simply because the ap holds them in derision. A reverse osmosis effect.
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more reason not to read them, ha! such ego just like its president!
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