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Google, Associated Press Reach Licensing Agreement for Online News

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 4, 2006 - 12:31pm.
San Francisco - Google and news organization the Associated Press confirmed this week that they reached a licensing agreement several months ago that allows Google to publish AP news stories on its Web services. Google had already been providing links to AP stories published by newspaper partners through its Google News service; the new agreement goes further, although neither company provided many details to reporters. "It's a licensing agreement that lets us use original AP content in new ways than we have used in the past for Google News," Google spokeswoman Sonya Boralv told Reuters. Financial terms of the licensing agreement were also not disclosed. A lawsuit filed last year by Agence France Presse (AFP) accuses Google of copyright infringement for its lifting of AFP images, headlines and news story snippets for indexing on Google News. Google has maintained that Google News makes "fair use" of AFP and other news organizations' copyright content; the case is due to come before the U.S. District Court in D.C.

http://tinyurl.com/qdquu (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/jfnbp (CNET)
tags: Deals | Internet | Licensing | Online Publishing | Content Deals | Google | Portals | News | AP |



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