Nice container. Because they need it to protect such impressive stories as this.

[The portals] have made assumptions about using our content which are wrong, and we are prepared to demand appropriate compensation.

—Tom Curley, President and CEO of the AP, which now comprises 1400 member newspapers, and former publisher of Gannett’s USA Today: via WSJ

This is about what content providers must do in the digital era. That starts with doing a much better job of protecting the content we create

—Tom Curley, AP: via FT

Thomson Reuters and other news agencies have begun working with third-party content identification firms such as Attributor to track the flow of their material across blogs, websites and aggregators. [FT] Any time you talk about a tracking system, the thrust of [the commentary] is about enforcing copyright. But what we hope is the outcome out of this is the ability to enable more licensed uses of  content. We want to keep the content open, we don’t want to keep it behind firewalls.

—Jim Kennedy, the AP’s VP of strategic planning: All Things D

What we are building here is a way for good journalism to survive and thrive. The AP news registry will allow our industry to protect its content online, and will assure that we can continue to provide original, independent and authoritative journalism at a time when the world needs it more than ever.

—Dean Singleton, chairman of the AP Board of Directors and vice chairman and CEO of Media News Group Inc, Fair Syndication Consortium and Attributor: via World Editors Forum

Nice container. Because they need it to protect such impressive stories as this.

[The portals] have made assumptions about using our content which are wrong, and we are prepared to demand appropriate compensation.
—WSJ: Tom Curley, President and CEO of the AP, which now comprises 1400 member newspapers, and former publisher of Gannett’s USA Today

This is about what content providers must do in the digital era. That starts with doing a much better job of protecting the content we create
—FT: Tom Curley.

AP, Thomson Reuters and other news agencies have begun working with third-party content identification firms such as Attributor to track the flow of their material across blogs, websites and aggregators. [FT]

Any time you talk about a tracking system, the thrust of [the commentary] is about enforcing copyright. But what we hope is the outcome out of this is the ability to enable more licensed uses of content. We want to keep the content open, we don’t want to keep it behind firewalls.
—All Things D: Jim Kennedy, the AP’s VP of strategic planning

What we are building here is a way for good journalism to survive and thrive. The AP news registry will allow our industry to protect its content online, and will assure that we can continue to provide original, independent and authoritative journalism at a time when the world needs it more than ever.
—World Editors Forum Dean Singleton, chairman of the AP Board of Directors and vice chairman and CEO of MediaNews Group Inc

Fair Syndication Consortium and Attributor