AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators 303
jjp9999 writes "The Associated Press is launching the NewsRight project to make aggregators pay for content. Some of the top names in the news industry are currently on board, including New York Times Co. and Washington Post Co, and they're currently negotiating with Gannett, Tribune, Cox and News Corp. The project will license original news from the media companies and collect royalties from aggregators. The use of lawsuits and threats of lawsuits are already on the agenda. NewsRight's first salesperson starts work this week."
FUCK YOUR MOM, FUCK HER HARD (Score:5, Funny)
I agree completely, migla. People should really spend more time digging in depth to find well thought out arguments instead of knee jerk reactions based on something as superficial as a title. Its not like a title is supposed to be some type of summary of the internal contents. They should probably just get rid of that box completely.
my god, slashdot writers (Score:4, Funny)
might actually have to ---summarize a topic instead of copy-pasting the first fucking paragraph---
what will become of the site?
Re:First post (Score:2, Funny)
...distill the jizz of their post into the title...
I'm not sure how many images went flying through my mind with that malaprop, or even what those images were, but I get the gist of your comment, I think.
Sticky situation, nonetheless.
The hand that feeds me looks delicious! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:slashdot (Score:2, Funny)
Slashdot is more of a duplicator than an aggregator.
Re:slashdot (Score:2, Funny)
Slashdot is more of a duplicator than an aggregator.
Actually I think technically it's more like a regurgitator. Same news comes back up, but somehow it don't look quite right, it stinks and it certainly isn't appetizing.