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WASHINGTON : Google and the Associated Press announced on Monday they have reached a licensing agreement that will allow the search giant to continue hosting content from the US news agency.
The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, was concluded after what the AP described in a story as "months of sometimes thorny negotiations." It replaces an agreement that expired in January.
The agreement allows Google to display AP content on such properties as Google News, the search giant's popular news aggregator.
The Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter," said the agreement will allow Google News to host AP articles for "at least two more years" and for Google to pay the AP "in the seven figures annually."
The newspaper said the AP had backed off certain demands including an attempt to have more of a say in how prominently AP content is featured in search results.
The AP, in a statement, said that under the agreement, the California-based Internet company and New York-based news agency will "work together in a number of new areas, such as ways to improve discovery and distribution of news."
"We look forward to future collaborations, including on ways Google and AP can work together to create a better user experience and new revenue opportunities," Google senior business product manager Josh Cohen said.
Agence France-Presse and a number of other international news agencies also have licensing agreements with Google.
Google first entered into a licensing deal with AP in 2006.
With the Google-AP negotiations at an impasse, Google in December stopped posting new AP content on Google News. AP content reappeared in February after the original agreement was extended. - AFP/fa
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