[Marxism] Agence France Presse vs. Google News: Economics of Online Publishing and Search Engine Indexing

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

"Agence France Presse vs. Google News: Economics of Online Publishing
and Search Engine Indexing" (Juan Cole writes that the corporate
media in the United States "refuse to report news that is only
carried by AFP [Agence France Presse]."  To compound the problem, AFP
recently sued Google News "for US$ 17.5 million, for using photos,
headlines and leads," so Google News removed AFP from it.  The
lawsuit may be a case of AFP cutting its nose to spite its face, as
the removal may diminish traffic to AFP customers' websites.  Why
should we care?  Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation says that "a ruling against Google also could harm the
free exchange of ideas") --
<http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/03/agence-france-presse-vs-google-news.html>.
--
Yoshie

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