A group of online publishers calling themselves The Fair Syndication Consortium have teamed up with Attributor to demand a percentage of revenue news aggregators earn through ads on sites that use their content, paidContent reported.

Attributor is working with news groups such as The Associated Press, the Financial Times and CondeNet in order to track their online content. If the content is found to be misused, publishers can request that it be taken down or ask for a cut of ad revenue.

The success of the project hinges in part on the ad networks' willingness to participate. At present, no ad nets have partnered with the Consortium.