AP Says the Free Ride is Over
Copying and pasting is a cardinal sin of journalists. PR professionals and marketers may use the function sparingly but be prepared to face the consequences when failing to give credit where credit is due. But now the AP (Associated Press) announced today that they will be adding “software to each article that shows what limits apply to the rights to use it, and that notifies The A.P. about how the article is used.”
The AP still wants its articles printed, re-printed, blogged about, linked to, etc. They just want to be paid each time this happens. Stay tuned to find out what this mean for blogs like mine!
Source: New York Times article by Richard Perez-Pena
I can’t believe there are people out there that want to limit the freedom of information on the internet.