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Nick D'Aloisio Gets $30 Million From Yahoo for Summly App | TIME.com

Nick D'Aloisio Gets $30 Million From Yahoo for Summly App | TIME.com: AP’s win marks a significant victory for media companies that feel they’ve lost control of their content in the digital age.�News-industry heavyweights have tussled with aggregators before, but usually through threatening words or private settlements. In 2008 the Associated Press sued All Headline News, a now defunct website that was rewriting AP stories without attribution. The site ended up paying AP an undisclosed sum in a settlement. In 2009,�Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp., said Google and Yahoo were stealing the news by aggregating it and profiting from it on their own websites. The New York Times Co. also settled in a 2008 case where a hyperlocal news site run by the Times-owned Boston Globe was sued for aggregating another local site’s links and headlines.

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