GET ACAP-ENABLED: Make the most of your online content and protect professional journalism
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 tool to enable them to communicate their copyright terms and conditions online in a language that can be read, understood and interpreted by the machines that crawl and index their content. Put simply, ACAP enables the copyright terms, conditions and permissions that would 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 online publishing, both in terms of the relationship with search engines and other aggregators, and in terms of facilitating existing, new and future online publishing business models. ACAP is essentially a 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 permission.
With traditional media experiencing their greatest challenge since the creation of copyright law 300 years ago, ACAP is a crucial tool for the future of internet publishing and for publishers and content providers of all shapes and sizes.
Independent News & Media CEO Gavin O'Reilly explains:
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Why publishers should implement ACAP
Gavin O'Reilly
CEO of the World Association of Newspapers
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Implement ACAP today, display the "ACAP-enabled" logo on your site and demonstrate that you care about what happens to your content.
ACAP's technical work is ongoing and version 1.0 has now been finessed into version 1.1 to add further funcationality to the tool. If you would like to propose new permissions or use cases for ACAP to develop, please email:
mark.bide@rightscom.com for more information.