AP is a co-op, From their about page [http://www.ap.org/pages/about/about.html http://www.ap.org/pages/about/about.html] "AP is a not-for-profit news cooperat

AP is a co-op, From their about page [http://www.ap.org/pages/about/about.html http://www.ap.org/pages/about/about.html] "AP is a not-for-profit news cooperative" The techdirt article makes it sound like AP just figured out how to hyperlink. If you read the original article,[http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/07/ap-will-link-back-to-newspapers-who-get-scoops/ http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/07/ap-will-link-back-to-newspa...] its easy to see that that AP is proposing to link the actual story (scoop) from its member news organizations and only from their member news organisations. Running as a non-profit co-operative news organisation presents its own set of challenges other than just technical, I guess.