Nimble at covering breaking news across the globe, with reporters in 97 countries, the Associated Press trips over its own feet when it comes to the twenty-first-century task of handling bloggers.
Aware of the danger the Internet poses to its business, in May 2007 the AP began using a service provided by Attributor Corporation, which combs the Web for material that potentially infringes copyright and gives the copyright owner the option of generating cease-and-desist letters when infringing material is found. Last November the AP asked lawyers at Bingham McCutchen to bring a suit claiming “hot news” misappropriation against news aggregator Moreover Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of VeriSign, Inc (The AP is now rumored to be considering buying Moreover.) This January, the AP sued the Florida-based news service All Headline News, produced by AHN Media Corp., for hot news misappropriation, retaining DLA Piper as counsel. The All Headline News suit case was eventually dismissed. These two cases didn’t attract much attention.
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