08/03/2009

Statement:

AP Statement on iCopyright's Automated Form to License AP Content

The iCopyright form that enables users to license AP content online is drawing new attention this week.

It is an automated form, thus explaining how one blogger got it to charge him for the words of a former president.

As the AP stated more than a year ago, the form is not aimed at bloggers. It is intended to make it easy for people who want to license AP content to do so.

AP partners with iCopyright to automate fulfillment of routine requests for rights to republish AP material, either from AP-hosted sites or member and customer sites carrying AP content. The licensing options vary greatly, from an array of uses – such as e-mail, print and save – through paid options up to and including large-scale corporate reprints of excerpts, full articles or photos.

Paul Colford
Director of Media Relations
The Associated Press