"Agence France Presse vs. Google News: Economics of Online Publishing and Search Engine Indexing" (Juan Cole writes that the corporate media in the United States "refuse to report news that is only carried by AFP [Agence France Presse]." To compound the problem, AFP recently sued Google News "for US$ 17.5 million, for using photos, headlines and leads," so Google News removed AFP from it. The lawsuit may be a case of AFP cutting its nose to spite its face, as the removal may diminish traffic to AFP customers' websites. Why should we care? Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that "a ruling against Google also could harm the free exchange of ideas") -- <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/03/agence-france-presse-vs-google-news.html>. -- Yoshie
* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * OSU-GESO: <http://www.osu-geso.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>
