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an acap partner acap automated content access protocol home information press implement acap blog faqs other languages subscribe login contact solutions to address the challenges of communicating digital rights and permissions so what is acap and how does it work wan ifra president and acap chairman gavin o reilly explains launched back in 2007 acap automated content access protocol is a new non commercial open global protocol devised by the worldwide publishing community that provides content providers with the necessary tools to communicate their copyright terms and conditions online in a language that can be read understood and interpreted by machines put simply acap enables the copyright terms conditions and permissions that would routinely be read by a human in the offline environment to be read and unambiguously interpreted by the machines that replace the human in the online environment acap will help maximise the potential of publishing on any web based device both in terms of improving the management of the relationship with search engines and other content aggregators and in terms of facilitating existing new and future online publishing business models acap is essentially a free to use tool for the business to business environment but end users will benefit when content owners have the confidence thanks to acap to put their high value high quality diverse content on the net safe in the knowledge that third parties can no longer exploit that content without appropriate permission acap is a crucial tool for the future of internet publishing and for publishers and content providers of all shapes and sizes despite the impressive number of sites and publishers worldwide that have already implemented acap the major search engines and content aggregators have ndash as of yet declined to adopt acap and have yet to positively engage in any meaningful dialogue with rightsholders about their requirements for more effective control over the way that their content is used online you can read our responses to the substantial amount of misinformation that has been spread about acap by those who have a business interest in restricting the effectiveness of copyright on the internet here we continue to hold out an olive branch to and work with those search engines who value the rights of the content providers and we also continue to talk with legislators and regulators on how a tool like acap can be used to avoid copyright infringements and the lawsuits that are the inevitable result the more support we have from the rightsholder community the stronger our case so join us implement acap spread the word and not only preserve but enhance the value of your content and your enterprise improving universal access to content it rsquo s hard for anyone to make content available for access and use on the network without any rules hellip it rsquo s hard to follow rules if you don rsquo t know what they are hellip it rsquo s hard to learn how to read and understand rules if you are a machine hellip unless you have acap blog acap blogs www the acap org blog aspx news acap v 2 0 syndication and aggregation the latest version of acap is under development in collaboration with associated press and the newspaper licensing agency nla of relevance to news publishers aggregators and subscribers to syndicated news feeds acap version 2 0 is being developed to enable the communication of machine interpretable rights and permissions in syndicated news feeds the aim is to make it possible for users of syndicated news to determine automatically what usages are permitted and with what constraints and to enable publishers and licensing agencies to communicate rights information clearly to their subscribers more hamburg declaration in june 2009 news group chief executives from both the european publishers council and the world association of newspapers presented the hamburg declaration to the commission of the european union calling for online coopyright to be respected to allow innovation to thrive and consumers to be better served owners or directors of media related businesses are invited to sign this declaration at www hamburgdeclaration org and to add this url to their links pages to encourage maximum interest who is behind acap acap is a joint initiative of the european publishers council the world association of newspapers and the international publishers association more list of implementers see the list of current acap implementers here for technicians click here for further information info the acap org copy acap 2006 2010 privacy policy site design by lime media limited