I don’t want to get all apocalyptic and say the AP is dead, but … this post from Reuters basically means that the AP is dead. Here’s the salient part:
I don’t believe you could or should charge others for simply linking to your content. Appropriate excerpting and referencing are not only acceptable, but encouraged. If someone wants to create a business on the back of others’ original content, the parties should have a business relationship that benefits both.
If you’re confused about what’s been going on with the AP, this story is a great spot to start.
With apologies to George Lucas — the more you tighten your grip, AP, the more newspapers will slip through your fingers.
Update: Reuters’ editor-in-chief also weighed in on this:
The real danger in not being extremely open to linking, it seems to me, is that by moving yourself out of the mainstream debate you risk irrelevancy.
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