AP resolves dispute with publisher of Hillary Clinton's memoirs

[Nambe]

NEW YORK (AP)

The Associated Press announced Friday that it had agreed to put in place a training program on copyright law for its journalists in order to resolve a dispute with Simon & Schuster over the publication last year of a story with excerpts from Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoirs, "Living History."

Simon & Schuster, a unit of media conglomerate Viacom Inc., had objected to the AP's story, which came out several days before the official publication date of the book, saying that it amounted to copyright infringement. The AP disagreed and cited the strong news value of the information in the memoir. ..

Carolyn Reidy, head of the adult publishing group at Simon & Schuster, said in a statement that the company was "gratified" by AP's willingness launch the program. "We value our relationship with AP and other media outlets, and hoped from the start that we would be able to resolve our dispute in a manner that recognized our shared interests in both the free reporting of news and the protection of intellectual property rights," Reidy said. ..

[LauraK]

1. Don't mess with the Hill.

She's been used and abused and won't take it any more.