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AP and News Corp: Facebook, YouTube, Google Are Exploiting Us

Source: Mashable!

Oct 09, 2009

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While some newspapers and news organization are finding ways to adapt to the web era of journalism, others are making headlines for their plans to charge for news content online, ranging from logical to ludicrous. We’ll let you decide where today’s statements fall on this spectrum.

Associated Press CEO Tom Curley and famed News Corp head honcho Rupert Murdoch told a meeting of media leaders in Beijing, China recently that news content creators were being exploited by third parties “such as Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook” and that “aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content.”

Much of that frustration of course comes from their freefalling revenues. In any event, Curley and Murdoch had a few other interesting sound bytes for their audience, according to the Associated Press strangely enough. Here are some of our favorite tidbits:

Tom Curley: “Crowd-sourcing Web services such as Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook have become preferred customer destinations for breaking news, displacing Web sites of traditional new

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