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This is an excellent opportunity for someone to create a start up around. The AP is basically just a news aggregation service and a monopoly. How many organiz

by seasoup 17y ago

This is an excellent opportunity for someone to create a start up around. The AP is basically just a news aggregation service and a monopoly. How many organizations just get their news off of the AP and don't actually sponsor any of their own. A small company could have liberal reuse policies and use the APs lack of foresight against them. Pay contributors for their content based on its popularity.

eli 17y ago
They're not a monopoly, there are several other big wire services and dozens of smaller ones. They're just one of the best.
- seasoup 17y ago
  They're the only one you ever hear about.
  - eli 17y ago
    Reuters and AFP would be the other two big ones. AP is just the biggest and the best for US news.
huhtenberg 17y ago
And this company is going to earn money how exactly ?