Lets all welcome "News Right" to the trolling industry

[Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)]

Not to be confused with "Righthaven" this is a spin-off of "The Beacon" the brainchild of the AP..

"NewsRight's tracking program was designed to ease the burden on publishers who often must spend time and resources seeking out sites that violate copyrights and determine which ones may be profiting most from their content."

sounds like another picscout to me...read the full article below

http://adage.com/article/mediaworks/newspapers-form-newsright-police-article-pilfering-online/231909/

[Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)]

News companies have notched a victory in their long running push to charge digital aggregators for curating their content. On Wednesday, licensing service NewsRight announced a deal that could be the first step in creating a major new revenue stream for companies like the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) and the Associated Press.

The deal in question involves a news monitoring service called Moreover which will pay NewsRight to license the content it now scrapes on behalf of its clients. The licensing service will in turn distribute the revenue to the 29 news firms that are its shareholders....

NewsRight has said in the past that it is not a “litigation shop.” And the organization is also carrying several carrots to go with the copyright stick it is carrying.....

 http://paidcontent.org/article/419-news-licensing-outfit-newsright-bags-first-client/