Media Giants Gang Up on News Reader App Zite over Alleged Copyright Violations
The Apple iPad news reader app Zite has been making some powerful enemies.
Kara Swisher reports that a round-up of scary media giants including The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty Images, Time, Dow Jones, and many other organizations issued a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, a content aggregator, citing a ton of copyright violations.
“The Zite application is plainly unlawful,” said the letter to Zite CEO Ali Davar.
“It’s a bummer that they did this, but we expected it,” Davar told Swisher, sounding less terrified than we would have thought.
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