AP to Ask Aggregators to Share*

* UPDATED -- The content of the story at NYTimes.com changed from the time of this initial post.

The updated story now says that AP's intention is to demand that Web sites first obtain permission and share revenue before making use of member content. Failing that, the story says, AP will likely resort to legal action.

Here's a snippet:

A.P. executives said they were concerned about a variety of news forums around the Web, including major search engines like Google and Yahoo and aggregators like the Drudge Report that link to news articles, smaller sites that sometimes reproduce articles whole, and companies that sell packaged news feeds.

They said they did not want to stop the appearance of articles around the Web, but to exercise some control over the practice and to profit from it.

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