AP to Take on News Aggregators

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6 Apr, 2009 by New York Herald in Media

Google News, which attracts 140 million pageviews per month according to Quantcast, doesn’t actually have it’s own news content to offer readers.  Rather, As you can see above, it aggregates news content from around the web.  Displaying one or two lines of the story, Google News then links out to the original source.  Perhaps that’s why AP, which is owned by a wide constorium of newspapers throughout the country, is beginning to take offense.  William Dean Singleton, Chairman of the AP group, announced at the organization’s annual meeting in San Diego today, that the organization will begin taking legal measures against unauthorized use of their content on websites.  “We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories.” he said.