Fast Company: This Is Twitter, There Are Rules: How AFP Stole a Photographer’s Work, Then Sued Him
Monday, 10 May 2010, 15:43
A big copyright dispute is brewing between a major news agency and a freelance photographer over Haiti earthquake pictures originally published on TwitPic.
Saturday, 19 January 2008, 08:55
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"AFP was reported to have barred its journalists from using Facebook or Wikipedia as sources. Or rather, it has told its reporters not to simply to rely on these sites the sole source for a story. Anyone in journalism will tell you that this is just good
Friday, 9 November 2007, 16:09
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"Australian cricket authorities came under fire on Friday for preventing some news organisations from covering the first test match against Sri Lanka, as a boycott of the event by international news groups continued."
Monday, 3 September 2007, 21:50
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Shane Richmond: "From a newsprint point of view wire copy makes perfect sense. It allows us to cover stories that we don’t have resources to cover ourselves. … Online, however, wire copy is redundant."
Sunday, 2 September 2007, 19:30
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Yet again, an important reminder: Google News is a much smaller wire-service aggregating operation than Yahoo News. And MSN. And AOL.
Sunday, 2 September 2007, 10:59
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AFP, one of more than 40 new organisations in dispute with the IRB over arrangements for covering the Rugby World Cup, threatened to pull out of reporting on the tournament.
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 09:35
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"Publishers that routinely carry wire stories on their sites could lose traffic, affecting the prices they charge online advertisers".
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 09:32
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"Josh Cohen, business product manager of Google News, said his company would consider eventually running advertising alongside the articles it is licensing from news agencies."
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 09:28
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Google News will now link directly to stories by the news agencies Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Press Association and the Canadian Press, rather than identical stories on newspapers’ web sites
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Newspapers’ ‘frenemy’ Google, the debate continues
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 14:31
Google maybe making peace with the wires, but America’s latest newspaper mogul is not a fan. The new owner of Tribune newspapers, Chicago property magnate Sam Zell, reignited the old Google-as-kleptomaniac topos when he told students at Stanford University:
“We have a situation today where effectively the content is being paid for by the newspapers [...]
Google makes nice with the wires
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 14:26
AFP and Google last week settled their long-running copyright squabble on Friday when they signed a licensing agreement that will allow the French news agency’s material to appear on Google News.
AFP dropped its 2005 US lawsuit over Google’s unauthorised use of its content as part of the deal that a Google spokesman said will [...]
Friday, 6 April 2007, 21:38
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“News agency Agence France-Presse has entered into a licensing deal with Google, ending the dispute between the two over AFP’s articles appearing on Google News.”
