Online commercial clipping service Meltwater is committing direct and secondary copyright infringement, as well as “hot news” misappropriation, by distributing excerpts and full-text copies of Associated Press news stories to paying customers in direct competition with AP, the Associated Press alleged in a Feb. 14 complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Associated Press v. Meltwater U.S. Holdings Inc.).
“This lawsuit is not a general attack on news aggregators—many of whom are AP’s licensees,” according to a statement by the company. “Nor does this lawsuit in any way seek to restrict ...
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