Google pays AP for agency material
Internet giant Google and operator of the Google News portal wants to pay for agency material for a new service and has therefore concluded a contract with the Associated Press AP news agency.
In future, internet giant Google and operator of the Google News portal wants to pay for agency material and has therefore concluded a contract with the Associated Press AP news agency. The contract forms the basis for a new Google service that is currently being planned, Pressetext reports. No details of the agreement have been communicated and it is not known whether there will be further partnerships with other agencies in the future. The news agency Reuters quotes Google spokeswoman Sonya Borlav as saying that the new agreement is a license agreement that will enable Google to process original AP texts and images in new forms than the existing Google News portal currently does.
In the past, Google has been in dispute with some press agencies because Google News presents content from over 4,500 sources worldwide without paying for it. However, as Google News never shows the complete report and always links to the author's page, copyright law is not infringed. The contract with AP will not change this.
