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Publishers Developing Automated Usage Rights Data for Search Engines

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 22, 2006 - 11:21am.
London - In the wake of a Belgian court dispute over Google's use of news stories for its Google News aggregation service, a coalition of print media associations has developed an automated system that would provide embedded usage guidelines within stories distributed on the Web. The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) plans to launch its Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) system, which will provide search engine "spiders" that trawl news sites with information on how stories may be used, by the end of the year. "This system is intended to remove completely any rights conflicts between publishers and search engines," said WAN chairman Gavin O'Reilly. "This industry-wide initiative positively answers the growing frustration of publishers, who continue to invest heavily in generating content for online dissemination and use." As it currently operates, Google News enables publishers to opt out of allowing their articles to be included in the news index; WAN said ACAP could automatically tell Google that a publisher's articles may be used, for instance, but only for a limited time and after first paying a royalty. The World Association of Newspapers counts 72 national newspaper associations among its members.
http://www.wan-press.org/article11943.html
http://tinyurl.com/krp4b (Reuters)
http://www.rightscom.com

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