Meltwater runs something very much akin to Google Alerts, or a clippings service if you prefer.
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Meltwater uses the information to help clients analyze the effectiveness of marketing and public relations campaigns.
In the filing, the AP's supporters argued that Meltwater's service differs from a search engine.
Ospizio is the highest point on the track, in an ethereal landscape scattered with strangely lucent meltwater lakes.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge supported Meltwater in a court brief.
Meltwater is a 12-year-old electronic news clipping service that helps its clients monitor how they are covered in the press.
Meltwater tailors its clipping service to specific clients and copies the headline and lead paragraph of stories, the filing said.
Moreover, permitting Meltwater to avoid paying licensing fees gives it an unwarranted advantage over its competitors who do pay licensing fees.
The judgement also points to the amount of content that Meltwater replicated.
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The judge rejected Meltwater's claims that it operates like a search engine.
Aside from the crunch of crampons on ice, the only sound is meltwater running over the glacier surface in a perfect zigzag stream.
In its lawsuit, the AP alleged that Meltwater News had been pilfering current and past material from the AP and other news providers.
As the NLA versus Meltwater copyright case shows, UK publishers only have to say the word and they can stop Google reproducing their stuff.
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In a statement, Meltwater said it was disappointed and will appeal.
Lawyers for the San Francisco-based Meltwater News did not immediately comment.
Jorn Lyseggen, Meltwater's founder and chief executive, said the company was considering options and looked forward to appealing to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
For some time scientists were puzzled by the speed with which meltwater could disappear through the ice as it drained down natural pipes known as moulins.
Whereas Google News users clicked through to 56 percent of excerpted stories, the equivalent rate for Meltwater was 0.08 percent, according to figures cited in the judgement.
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In its lawsuit, the AP alleged that Meltwater News had been pilfering current and past material from the AP and other news providers without paying licensing fees.
"Permitting Meltwater to take the fruit of AP's labor for its own profit, without compensating AP, injures AP's ability to perform this essential function of democracy, " Cote wrote.
Meltwater said it believes Cote misapplied the fair use doctrine.
One of Meltwater's competitors, BurrellesLuce, joined in a friend-of-the-court brief to say that it operates at a disadvantage because it pays to license content that Meltwater takes for free.
Also joining in the friend-of-the-court brief was BurrellesLuce, a Meltwater competitor that says it is at a disadvantage because it pays to license content that Meltwater takes for free.
The meltwater did indeed cut through nearly 1km of ice, as some had hypothesised and others had doubted, forcing its way down thanks to its greater weight and density.
Even one of Meltwater's competitors, BurrellesLuce, joined in a friend-of-the-court brief to say that it operates at a disadvantage because it pays to license content that Meltwater takes for free.
"Meltwater News is an expensive subscription service that markets itself as a news clipping service, not as a publicly available tool to improve access to content across the Internet, " she said.
Meltwater had argued that it provides a specialized news-related Internet search engine that allows its 4, 000 U.S. customers to search for and receive information about news items relevant to their businesses.
"None of these revenue streams can be sustained if news organizations are unable to protect their news reports from the wholesale copying and redistribution by free-riders like Meltwater, " the filing said.
"It demonstrates that the media community stands together in recognizing that Meltwater's business of appropriating and selling media content cannot be excused as fair use and instead is infringing, " she said.
This is the one where AP has sued Meltwater.
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