It emerged last week that Google and the Associated Press have reached a licensing agreement regarding use of the latter's copyrighted news content and photographs.
The agreement is likely to be welcomed by those in the media who objected to the internet search portal's news aggregation service, on the grounds that it does not pay for the content displayed - which it claims is non-infringing - but could be seen as depriving the original sources of traffic, and therefore advertising revenue.
Neither party has released concrete information regarding financial terms or the exact use to which Google will put AP's news content (although the Wall Street Journal reported last week that the arrangement is not expected to affect Google News), but a Google spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday that:
"It's a licensing agreement that lets us use original AP content in new(er) ways than we have used in the past for Google News."
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