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Title: Time to pay up - News Corp, AP tell search engines Post by: Alex on October 12, 2009, 10:16:23 AM Time to pay up - News Corp, AP tell search engines
The heads of two of the worlds largest news outlets, Tom Curley from The Associated Press and Rupert Murdoch from News Corp, each spoke at a conference of 300 media representatives in Beijing this week stating that news portals like Google have earned fortunes from their articles and media without offering fair compensation to those creating the content. In his speech, Curly told the conference that "crowd-sourcing web services such as Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook have become preferred customer destinations for breaking news, displacing websites of traditional news publishers. We content creators must quickly and decisively act to take back control of our content". Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/pM4tzSkTr8k/time-to-pay-up---news-corp-ap-tell-search-engines |