Wednesday, April 8, 2009
BoomTown Decodes Google’s Phish-y Associated Press Blog (So You Don’t Have To)!
Yesterday, in response to Associated Press board Chairman and MediaNews Group CEO Dean Singleton’s diatribe against those who shoplift news and his pledge to “protect news content from misappropriation,” Google posted a response on its public policy blog. Of course, that has nothing to do with the fact that most people think the Singleton speech was aimed at the search giant and its burgeoning power over the distribution of media, although Google was not named by him. Still, it’s always nice to make nice. Sort of.
So, it was hard to resist translating this Google blog by one of its lawyers.
