AP sues online news aggregator for scraping content
The Associated Press is suing Moreover, an online news aggregator and its parent company VeriSign. The AP says the company is illegally accessing and distributing Associated Press content without permission.Moreover is sort of like a subscription version of Google News. If you visit the company's main page you get a lot of information about the service, but no free content. Users can sign up for RSS feeds on a variety of topics or you can pay a subscription fee for more in-depth content.
Moreover isn't producing news. It's collecting news from various sources and sending it along to subscribers. Each story you get from Moreover is really just a link and a brief description. If you're using the ad-supported version of Moreover's services you'll have to click through to the original website to find the full content. Paying subscribers can access full length stories from the AP and other news sources.
So here's the question: is Moreover ripping the AP off, or is it actually helping the wire service by directing more readers to AP news content online? While Google claims that the Google News service constitutes "fair use," the company has reached a deal with the AP and several other major news providers to distribute content. But Google also doesn't offer a premium service with full-length content scraped from other news publishers.
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Lee said 8:09AM on 10-12-2007
"My news, get your own!" lol.
Oh please. Didn't Mummy and Daddy teach you to share ? I'm so tired of these gigantic corporations behaving like spoilt children.
How can they claim news is IP ? Isn't that like me taking a photo of someone in the street and then claiming I 'created the work' ?
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Internet Media Executive said 12:14PM on 10-12-2007
To All the customers that License our News Content for use on your site,
Please stop monetizing the content you license from us. Stop placing the content you host on your website in RSS feeds and stop marketing that content even though that’s why you pay us. We would like to go after all the aggregators and try to make even more money from them and license our content to them directly cutting you (our customers) out of the loop completely. We don’t want you to use the content you bought from us in RSS feeds and we don’t want you to use it for SEO unless those aggregators pay us for it too. We know we told you something different to get you to license the content in the first place but times change.
Sincerely,
The Associated Press
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