AP to Take Legal Action Against Aggregators

At this point, the state of the newspaper world being what it is, it’s really just a question of who is going to start charging for content first. Our money has lately been on the NYT.com in terms of who will be the first to dip their toes into a blanket subscription model, but it looks like the AP may be first out of the gate when it comes to protectionary measures. Per the NYT:

The Associated Press and its member newspapers will take legal action against Web sites that use newspaper articles without legal permission, the group said on Monday, in a clear shot at aggregators like Google.

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