Filed under: Facebook, Google, News Corporation, Paid for content | Tags: Associated Press, Google, News Corporation
The leaders of two of the world’s major news organizations said Friday that it is time for search engines and others who use news content for free to pay up. The comments from The Associated Press’ Tom Curley and Rupert Murdoch of News Corp., come as the media industry struggles in the Internet age. Many news companies contend that sites such as Google have reaped a fortune off their articles, photos and video without fairly compensating the news organizations producing the material. “We content creators have been too slow to react to the free exploitation of news by third parties without input or permission,” Curley, the AP’s chief executive, told a meeting of 300 media leaders in Beijing. “Crowd-sourcing Web services such as Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook, have become preferred customer destinations for breaking news, displacing Web sites of traditional news publishers,” Curley said. “We content creators must quickly and decisively act to take back control of our content.” He said content aggregators, such as search engines and bloggers, were also directing audiences and revenue away from content creators. The AP and its member newspapers contend that unauthorized use of their material is costing them tens of millions of dollars in potential advertising revenue at a time when they can least afford it. Murdoch and Curley were speaking to representatives from more than 170 media outlets from 80 countries at a meeting that will look at the challenges and opportunities the media face from the Internet, technology changes and the world economic crisis.
I am delighted to say this is an Associated Press story that was found by a professional organisation for journalists and redistributed to a mailing list of thousands and I am cheerfully republishing it.
When is that tide due in?
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