Breitbart reports that U.S. newspapers are “mad as hell” about “Web sites that use their stories without paying for them.”

The main target? Evidently it’s Google. “Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?” asks Rupert Murdoch, who quickly answers his own question: “Thanks, but no thanks.”

Over on All Things Digital, Peter Kafka has a post that’s must reading for anyone interested in this issue. In an update to his post, Kafka reports that:

[Google] has a deal with the AP that expires at the end of this year, and the AP is setting the table for upcoming negotiations. Their main contention: Google is already using AP content in ways that aren’t covered by the existing agreement, and the AP wants to be compensated for them.

Meanwhile, Google CEO Eric Schmidt appears shocked — shocked! “I was a little confused by all the excitement in the news in the last 24 hours,” he says in this article for which AP presumably received payment from Yahoo! News.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 at 7:15 am and is filed under Internet Stuff.