AP Scandal Demonstrates Need for Federal Shield Law to Protect Reporters
It is well settled that Internet search engines’ reproduction of limited portions of copyrighted materials in order to direct Internet users to locations of original content constitutes “fair use” under the Copyright Act....more
Meltwater News infringed copyrights of the Associated Press (AP), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District in Manhattan held last week, when Meltwater republished excerpts of AP news stories as part of its online...more
On March 21, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a sweeping decision in favor of DWT’s client, The Associated Press, in its copyright infringement suit against Meltwater News, an online...more