AP Chairman Dean Singleton says he is mad about the unauthorized use of news content, primarily on non-member sites. This is great news. Now lets hope that anger can be channeled into an actual business plan. Publications were annoyed but not quite angry that Craig's List and eBay stole their classified business, they were irked that Monster.com got their help wanted business, they were chagrined that Realtor.com eroded their real estate advertising business.  But they were not quite angry enough to to do anything about those blows to their businesses. It is good to see someone in the industry actually get angry. Now let's hope that translates into action. 

This is from www.paidcontent.org:

AP Annual Meeting: Singleton On Protecting AP’s Online Content: ‘We’re Mad As Hell’

By David Kaplan - Mon 06 Apr 2009 11:37 AM PST

MediaNews Group CEO and AP Chairman Dean Singleton began his keynote highlighting the wire service’s decision to concentrate on working with portals that protect its news content. On the use of online sites appropriating AP content and not providing any revenue back to the organization, Singleton channeled Howard Beale from the movie Network: “We’re as mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore.”