The Google policy blog has a considered response today to the Associated Press announcement Monday that it intends to crack down on the use of its copyrighted material.
Alexander Macgillvray, a counsel for Google, notes that AdSense attached to newspaper Web sites delivers hundreds of millions of dollars to the newspaper business. There are fair use provisions to permit snippets of AP content, but Google's job is to drive and retain traffic for those sites, he asserts.
The AP move doesn't pertain to Google, he said.
