Reuters gets it
Bob Morris @ Jun 19th 2008 08:07 - Category: Unfiled
While AP whines about websites quoting from their stories and wants to ban such nefarious activity (have they never heard of Fair Use?), Reuters has news widgets for anyone to use.
Like this one.
Note the headlines. AP wants to charge any website for even using a headline.The influential tech blog TechCrunch has the right idea. They’ve banned AP from their sites.
Meanwhile, Reuters wants websites to syndicate their news.
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