The Associated Press, following criticism from bloggers over an AP assertion of copyright, plans to meet this week with a bloggers group to help form guidelines under which AP news stories could be quoted online.

Jim Kennedy, the APs director of strategic planning, said Monday that he planned to meet Thursday with Robert Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association, as part of an effort to create standards for online use of AP stories by bloggers that would protect AP content without discouraging bloggers from legitimately quoting from it.

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