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Interesting Court case

by Michael Motley
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Associated Press will collect undisclosed damages as part of a settlement of its lawsuit against All Headline News, a site that allegedly misappropriated AP stories online.
The AP considered the lawsuit an important test of the "hot news" doctrine, which was established in a 1918 Supreme Court case involving the AP. That principle holds that while facts cannot be copyrighted, news organizations can sue when competitors copy time-sensitive stories.


A judge ruled in February, over All Headline News' objections, that the principle was still valid. AHN Media Corp., the company behind All Headline News, acknowledged improperly using AP content and agreed to stop, according to a joint release from the companies. A lawyer for AHN Media and its CEO, W. Jeffrey Brown, both declined to comment further.
I thought this might be an interesting post. I've got a couple autoblog sites and jsut the other day, one of them got shut down because i picked up a post that was from some other site, that picked it up from another site. The post linked back to the original post, and noted that original poster as the author but i still had my site shut down when that author contacted my host saying that I had plagerized his post and took full credit for it.

There are other autobloggers out there in warrior land, i thought this information may be helpful in the future
#case #court #interesting

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