Google, AP reach new deal on licensing rights
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Google will be able to continue posting content from The Associated Press under a new licensing deal the two companies announced Monday after months of sometimes thorny negotiations. The AP said in a statement that the two companies also will work together in ways to improve discovery and distribution of news. Financial terms and the duration of the contract were not disclosed.
Google, the Internet’s most profitable company, began to pay for AP’s content in 2006 after the not-for-profit news agency threatened to sue. That contract expired in January but was extended while the negotiations on a new deal progressed. The talks got so thorny that at one point, Google stopped hosting AP content.
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