AP will curb unlicensed use of news content

Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley says an enforcement mechanism needs to be created to help curb unlicensed used of news on the Internet.
Curley made the remarks during a speech in Nashville to a training program run by Associated Press Managing Editors.
Curley says an effort is under way tracking websites engaged in content “scraping,’’ and planned to name 18 of them later at an industry meeting.
He also says a voluntary digital registry AP is offering can help it and newspapers find new opportunities from online licensing and advertising. Curley says the registry “is a start—we need to kick it up.’’
Some 900 newspapers have signed up for the registry and 700 are receiving real-time tracking data.