AP: tech coming to stop "wholesale theft" on ‘Net
Ever since the Associated Press warned in April that it is going to take steps against “misappropriation” of its content, Ars has been wondering what exactly those efforts will entail. After all, the press release wasn’t exactly chock full of details; it simply disclosed that the AP will “develop a system to track content distributed online to determine if it is being legally used.” “We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories,” AP Chairman Dean Singleton declared around the same time. The statement followed last year’s AP Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown warnings against the Drudge Retort for posting AP content, which called some posts a “‘ hot news ‘ misappropriation.”
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AP: tech coming to stop "wholesale theft" on ‘Net
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