The Associated Press is launching a rights clearinghouse for news content. "A newspaper (or a broadcaster, or a local blogger) could release a piece of content (a story, a photo, a video) with tags indicating what it is about, who owns it, how and where it may be used, and how the content originator is to be paid. The content, distributed through any available channel, is picked up by another publisher, aggregator, or personalized news service and used in accordance with the attached rights and payments protocols. The clearinghouse monitors usage and payment obligations throughout the network of participating content originators." This is a model that has (at least in the education domain) previously been bogged down in patent claims; I don't know whether AP is ignoring claims by companies such as ContentGuard or has in some other way finessed the legal issues.
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