Associated Press (AP) Supported from Newpaper Associations.

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A newspaper association in US including New York Times is supporting the Associated Press (AP) for a copyright lawsuit against an online media monitoring company, Meltwater, AP announced. According to AP, the newspaper companies are New York Times Co., Advanced Publication Inc., Gannett Co., McClatchy Co., the Newspaper Association of America and BurrellesLuce. The companies filed an amicus brief in support on 25^th Feb.

AP sued Meltwater for copying AP’s contents and selling to their clients without permission and licensing fees in Feb 2012. Maura Malone, acting general counsel of AP, said that AP is very pleased to have support on their site.

Associated Press is an American news agency organized as a New York not-for-profit corporation, and formed in 1846. Meltwater was founded in 2001 in Oslo, Norway. According to the company's website, it has more than 800 employees working in 55 offices around the world, news.yahoo.com wrote. 

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