Associated Press Wins Suit in Internet Copyright, Fair Use Case:
Publishers can rest easy knowing that their content online will be protected—for now. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled in favor of the Associated Press in its copyright infringement suit against San Francisco-based Meltwater News, a self-described commercial media-monitoring service.
At the heart of the case was the assertion by Meltwater News that content published and freely available on the Internet can be scraped, compiled and commercially resold under fair-use laws.
