For some publishers, Google News aggregation capabilities have been a cause for concern. Now global publishers plan to head off future legal clashes with search engines by launching a new product. The product is an automated system that will grant or deny a search engine permission to use a publishers content. The Automated Content Access Protocol, as the system is called, does this by enabling a publishers web site to speak in a language that a search engines spider can understand.
In light of what we know about where things are going - is this a good idea? Or are they shooting themselves in the foot? Is this like saying you are going to be print-only....
The project, which is led by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) in conjunction with a number of other organizations, should be officially launched by the end of the year. The pilot will run for a period of up to 12 months. The product announcement comes just after publishers Le Soir and La Libre Belgique won their case in the Belgian Courts against Google for illegally publishing their content on the Google news service without prior consent.
As goes print, so usually goes audio and video a few years later...
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