United StatesAssociated Press v. Meltwater U.S. Holdings, Inc.
931 F. Supp. 2d 537 (S.D.N.Y. 2013)
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Decided 21 March 2013 by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Judge Denise Cote held that Meltwater's commercial news-monitoring service, which crawled publisher websites and delivered headlines, ledes, and excerpts to paid enterprise subscribers, was not protected by fair use. Unlike a search engine, Meltwater did not transform the content but directly substituted for AP's licensed syndication feed, failing three of the four fair-use factors.
The decision is the leading case establishing that commercial snippet aggregation targeting the news-licensing market is copyright infringement.
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