A.P. Makes the Lead Block

Interesting news out of the Newspaper Association of America conference that the Associated Press plans to police the Web for sites that, in its estimation, are unfairly profitting from its content. The AP has already been a staunch defender of intellectual property, and it's not entirely clear how the organization plans to carry out its plan.

The announcement comes on the heels of an industry-wide discussion over how publications can share in some of the profits made by news aggregators that regularly link to or post snippets of their content. We'll be following this development...