Comments on: Freedom 2.0 — AP versus Google is Booting the Future http://housingdoom.com/2009/04/08/freedom-20-ap-versus-google-is-booting-the-future/ Thu, 24 May 2012 17:28:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: John M. http://housingdoom.com/2009/04/08/freedom-20-ap-versus-google-is-booting-the-future/#comment-16308 John M. Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:33:21 +0000 http://housingdoom.com/?p=2172#comment-16308 ... missed this conspiracy theory the first time through, from WaPo no less. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/06/AR2009040603207.html" rel="nofollow">"Behind The A.P.'s Plan To Become The Web's News Cop"</a>, by Erick Schonfeld, <em>Washington Post</em>, April 6, 2009.<blockquote>So how exactly does the A.P. plan on policing the Internet? Here I must rely on informed speculation, but I think I have a pretty good idea. The A.P. already monitors the Web for any partial or whole re-use of its articles and photos through a partnership with Attributor, a startup that has indexed the Web and can find any content for which it has a digital fingerprint. After identifying the worst offenders through Attributor, the A.P. could simply present that list to Google or any other site pointing to those offending sites and demand action. ...</blockquote> ............................................... and an article supportive to bloggers and aggregators coming out of BW: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2009/tc2009048_852696.htm" rel="nofollow">"AP and News Corp.: Wrong About Google -- Asking Web companies to pay up for content won't fix a business model that Old Media should have remedied a long time ago"</a>, by Sarah Lacy, <em>BusinessWeek</em>, April 6, 2009. … missed this conspiracy theory the first time through, from WaPo no less.

“Behind The A.P.’s Plan To Become The Web’s News Cop”, by Erick Schonfeld, Washington Post, April 6, 2009.

So how exactly does the A.P. plan on policing the Internet? Here I must rely on informed speculation, but I think I have a pretty good idea. The A.P. already monitors the Web for any partial or whole re-use of its articles and photos through a partnership with Attributor, a startup that has indexed the Web and can find any content for which it has a digital fingerprint. After identifying the worst offenders through Attributor, the A.P. could simply present that list to Google or any other site pointing to those offending sites and demand action. …

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and an article supportive to bloggers and aggregators coming out of BW:

“AP and News Corp.: Wrong About Google — Asking Web companies to pay up for content won’t fix a business model that Old Media should have remedied a long time ago”, by Sarah Lacy, BusinessWeek, April 6, 2009.

]]> By: Tobby http://housingdoom.com/2009/04/08/freedom-20-ap-versus-google-is-booting-the-future/#comment-16307 Tobby Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:45:50 +0000 http://housingdoom.com/?p=2172#comment-16307 Intellectual copyrights on the internet are nothing new. There has been an uneasy tension between abuse and revenue enhancement for years. Quoting a headline and sentence or two is fair use. "Quoting" an entire article is not. The gray areas in between are where the lawyers will stay busy. Intellectual copyrights on the internet are nothing new. There has been an uneasy tension between abuse and revenue enhancement for years. Quoting a headline and sentence or two is fair use. “Quoting” an entire article is not. The gray areas in between are where the lawyers will stay busy.

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