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.

A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web.

So he wants it to be illegal for me to link to licensed AP stories from my site?

(via marco)

maybe someone should send him a licensing bill for linking to google, yahoo et al.

Source: marco

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    I recently watched this Tom Curley interview on Charlie Rose. It raises more questions than it answers but it looks like...
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