roperty 6.4.1 Shepard Fairey 6.4.2 Hot News 6.5 Illegal immigrant 6.6 Hoax tweet and flash crash 6.7 Justice Department subpoena

6.1 Breach of contract and unfair competition
6.2 Christopher Newton
6.3 Fair use controversies
6.4 Copyright and intellectual property
6.4.1 Shepard Fairey
6.4.2 Hot News
6.5 Illegal immigrant
6.6 Hoax tweet and flash crash
6.7 Justice Department subpoena of phone records
7 Governance
8 Web resource
9 See also
10 Notes
11 References
12 External links
History[edit]



Logo on the former AP Building in New York City
Associated Press is a not-for-profit news cooperative formed in the spring of 1846 by five daily newspapers in New York City to share the cost of transmitting news of the Mexican-American War by boat, horse express and telegraph. The venture was organized by Moses Yale Beach (1800–68), second publisher of the New York Sun, and agreed to by the Herald, the Courier and Enquirer, the Journal of Commerce and the Express. Some historians[who?] believe that the Tribune joined at this time; documents show it was a member in 1849. The New York Times became a member shortly after its founding in September 1851. Initially known as the New York Associated Press (NYAP), the organization fac