ACAP will allow publishers to better protect their intellectual property rights by giving them more control over what search engines can gain access to.

ACAP should give content owners more confidence about publishing on the Web. The new web publishing standard was unveiled at a conference this week in New York, opened by WAN president Gavin O’Reilly. He said, "We can overcome this obstacle to development thanks to ACAP.  ACAP will give the content industry worldwide the incentive to innovate, create and disseminate.  Newspapers, magazines, books, journals, directory publishers: anyone involved in digital publishing can now adopt a standard that will protect their interests and will make them masters of their own content."

Globally, publishers are being encouraged to use ACAP, which will allow publishers to communicate their individual access and use policies in a language that search engine robots can read and understand. Publishers can choose to limit how long the engines can cache their content, enforce page-wide no follows, along with other options.

The Times Online has been the first to implement the new ACAP.

As of now, only provisions for text and still images are available. However, use cases for different business models, including for the audiovisual sector, will be considered during the next phase of ACAP's development.

Source:The Associated Press
European Journalism Centre 
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