The Associated Press, after sending cease and desist letters to the social media site Drudge Retort, plans to release guidelines that explain how much of its articles and media bloggers and Web sites can copy within fair use rights: The A.P.’s effort to impose some guidelines on the free-wheeling blogosphere, where extensive quoting and even [...]

The Associated Press and NowPublic.com announced Friday that they have agreed to an initiative designed to bring citizen content into AP newsgathering, and to explore ways to involve NowPublic‚Äôs on-the-ground network of news contributors in AP’s breaking news coverage. NowPublic.com, based in Vancouver, is the world‚Äôs largest participatory news network with more than 60,000 contributors [...]