Associated Press Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web
New York Times, July 23, 2009
By Richard Perez-Pena
Taking a new hard line that news articles should not turn up on search engines and Web sites without permission, the Associated Press said that it would add software to each article that shows what limits apply to the rights to use it, and that notifies the news service about how the article is used.
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