This week, the A.P had its annual meeting in San Diego, where A.P chairman William Dean Singleton expressed his concerns about different types of news forums in the internet that use their content illegally.

He also mentions that even major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and websites like the Drudge Report link to sites that use A.P’s content and to “companies that sell packaged news feeds.”

The A.P is taking legal action on this situation and they have established that they will “no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories.” The A.P asks the main search engines to target “the original source or the most authoritative source” avoiding the traffic of websites that copywrite and hijack A.P’s content while making profit from advertising.

However, there’s a rumor that A.P’s work has become a lucrative source for Google.

Read more at the NYTimes