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[1] The company does not own the copyrights to the content; its role is limited to brokering business relationships and contracts.
[2] NewsRight was launched on January 5, 2012 as a partnership between the Associated Press and 28 other news organizations.
[4] The company's launch is said by analysts to be motivated by news-filtering services such as Meltwater and news aggregators such as The Huffington Post.
[2][5] The AP has spent years fighting the free sharing of content online which has disrupted its traditional role as a newswire.