AP Fights Hard for Extinction - or at Least Irrelvance

Unlike the AP itself, you can't make this stuff up. Striving to make themselves disappear, the AP simply has no clue. Just remember that when you read articles about anything they write. They aren't even aware of their own stupidity.

A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web - NYTimes.com:

"Taking a new hard line that news articles should not turn up on search engines and Web sites without permission, The Associated Press said Thursday that it would add 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.

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.

Asked if that stance went further than The A.P. had gone before, he said, “That’s right.” The company envisions a campaign that goes far beyond The A.P., a nonprofit corporation. It wants the 1,400 American newspapers that own the company to join the effort and use its software."