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Re: http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/5889

newspaperlicensingagency — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:22:55 -0000

The NLA web licences only concern PAID-FOR services: all the major paid-for UK web aggregators except Meltwater have now agreed licences. Free-to-use news aggregators are unaffected. Full details are available on: www.nla-web.co.uk.

Re: News Clippings and Fair Use - Aggregators Respond to the NLA

newspaperlicensingagency — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:32:55 -0000

Barry
We agree that the aggregators provide a valuable service and add value, but that value is based on – and cannot exist without – copyright material published by newspapers. This is commercial use (to an annual total of around £10m per year) of newspapers’ content and commercial use is explicitly forbidden under all newspapers’ terms of use. Taking a web licence, as many cuttings agencies did this week, will legitimise these services. For private, non-commercial use, we encourage linking and understand it is essential to the fabric of the internet.
Also, as you will know if you use an aggregator service, they send rather more than links – headlines, keywords, article summaries are all common.

Re: The PRCA goes on the offensive against the NLA

newspaperlicensingagency — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:28:17 -0000

Hi -

To cover your points: as we said, the NLA licence covers UK local and national papers. Content on those sites is almost always covered by the NLA licence. But you can ‘quote’ from them as you wish – we are licensing only businesses which use the content commercially. Specifically, those who buy or sell on web monitoring from businesses such as Meltwater or Moreveor. These are companies whose business models have been built on using newspapers’ content without rewarding the publishers. The new web licence will change that.

We can and will collect fees from any business in any country using UK newspaper content in paid for media monitoring services.

And finally, on the legal remit, I think we answered this in our original reply.

Re: The PRCA goes on the offensive against the NLA

newspaperlicensingagency — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:52:58 -0000

Andrew

Full details of the NLA’s plans are available on our microsite on www.nla-web.co.uk.

The most important point to answer is that the NLA is only licensing systematic commercial use of newspaper website content. That is, businesses which sell or buy web-based media monitoring. Occasional links sent to clients or colleagues do not fall under this. Self-sourced monitoring is covered under the standard NLA licence.

In answer to the questions you raise:
• The new web licences will cover digital content on UK national and local newspaper websites.
• The NLA is licensed to act on behalf of national and regional newspapers. The revenues we collect are distributed among these publishers who use them to invest in their businesses.

Please do take a look at the www.nla-web.co.uk microsite as it will answer any questions you or your readers have (and do get in touch if it doesn’t).