AP on the attack over use of its content

Associated Press is cracking down on unlicensed use of its content on the web.

According to this report in the New York Times,the company is set to add

software to each article that shows what limits apply to the rights to use it, and that notifies The A.P. about how the article is used.

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Tom Curley, The A.P.’s president and chief executive, said the company’s position was that even minimal use of a news article online required a licensing agreement with the news organization that produced it.