AP wins lawsuit against AHN

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10285827-93.html

In July 2009, All Headline News agreed to pay the Associated Press in a settlement out of court. AP accused AHN of stealing from their breaking news sources in their online posts. The case drew from a 1918 case, in which the supreme court ruled that "hot news", or breaking news, can be considered an intellectual property law if a second news source takes it from the first news source.

This is a great example of how intellectual property laws are being applied to new media, because it is mostly concerned with how news is relayed via the internet. Since the Associated Press has recognized that print is a dying art form, they have been making a steady effort to secure their intellectual property rights as a news source on the internet, where it is very easy to copy and paste breaking news information and claim it as your own. This effort includes sending take-down notices to multiple blogs that have copied their news stories.