AAP joins ACAP project

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The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has joined the ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) project.

ACAP, a joint initiative of the International Publishers Association, the World Association of Newspapers and the European Publishers Council, is developing system to make publishers' licensing terms and e-commerce information universally machine-readable.

AAP joins Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Independent News and Media - owners of the Independent on Sunday - for the 12-month experiment to find a standardised protocol to regulate online use of newspaper and publishers content.

Ed McCoyd, AAP's director of digital policy, said ACAP: "Will improve publishers' ability to make their content available to a larger audience without the limitations currently imposed by the lack of a widely-adopted standard for machine readability, and search engines will be able to provide users with access to a much broader array of quality content."