Can IP Law Save Newspapers?

The news that the Associated Press is going to rely increasingly on copyright and trademark law to staunch losses to its newsgathering business and its client/member newspapers does not bode well for the level of creative, entrepreneurial thinking needed in the Fourth Estate right now.

Robert Scoble has a nice post reflecting on the challenges facing the industry as currently structured and does a nice functional analysis of the assets news organizations still have to work with.