Newspaper Licensing Agency
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The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited (often shortened to the NLA) is the collecting society for UK
newspapers, a privately owned limited company. It undertakes collective rights management
on behalf of its members and licenses companies, such as press cuttings agencies and media monitoring firms.
The NLA was founded in 1996 by the following eight UK national newspaper publishers, who are equal shareholders:
The NLA distributes over £22m each year to national and regional newspapers in respect of copyright works. In 2009 the NLA licensed over 1000m copies of newspaper cuttings from more than 1,400 titles and collected licence fees from over 8300 licensees (representing over 150,000 organisations).
In 2006 the NLA launched eClips, an online database of newspaper cuttings. In 2008, it launched ClipSearch, allowing anyone to search and retrieve original newspaper articles from around the UK, updated 72 hours after publication. In 2009, it introduced Newspapers for Schools, to encourage and ease the access of newspaper material to schools throughout the UK. The NLA also supports the Journalism Diversity Fund which provides bursaries to students from ethnically and socially diverse backgrounds looking to train as journalists.http://www.journalismdiversityfund.com/
s who supply online newspaper content and their respective clients. Operating under licence means that organisations are protected from copyright infringement and publishers earn royalties for use of the content they have invested in creating. The majority of media monitoring agencies have signed up for the new NLA web licence with the exception of Meltwater News who in conjunction with the PRCA have referred the scheme to the Copyright Tribunal. In May 2010 the NLA announced action in the High Court and on 26 November the High Court ruled in favour of the NLA. The case was appealed and heard by the UK's Court of Appeal in June 2011. They upheld the decision in the High Court case and gave a clear declaration that most (if not all) businesses subscribing to a media monitoring service that contains content from online newspapers require a licence.
UK press cuttings agencies include:
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newspapers, a privately owned limited company. It undertakes collective rights management
Collective rights management
Collective rights management is the licensing of copyright and related rights by organizations acting on behalf of rights owners. Collective management organisations, such as collecting societies, typically represent groups of copyright and related rights owners, such as authors, composers,...
on behalf of its members and licenses companies, such as press cuttings agencies and media monitoring firms.
The NLA was founded in 1996 by the following eight UK national newspaper publishers, who are equal shareholders:
- Associated NewspapersAssociated NewspapersAssociated Newspapers is a large national newspaper publisher in the UK, which is a subsidiary of the Daily Mail and General Trust. The group was established in 1905 and is currently based at Northcliffe House in Kensington...
- Financial TimesFinancial TimesThe Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
- Guardian Media GroupGuardian Media GroupGuardian Media Group plc is a company of the United Kingdom owning various mass media operations including The Guardian and The Observer. The Group is owned by the Scott Trust. It was founded as the Manchester Guardian Ltd in 1907 when C. P. Scott bought the Manchester Guardian from the estate of...
- Independent News & Media
- Northern and Shell
- News InternationalNews InternationalNews International Ltd is the United Kingdom newspaper publishing division of News Corporation. Until June 2002, it was called News International plc....
- Daily TelegraphThe Daily TelegraphThe Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
- Trinity MirrorTrinity MirrorTrinity Mirror plc is a large British newspaper and magazine publisher. It is Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers as well as the national Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People, and the Scottish Sunday Mail and Daily Record. Its headquarters are at Canary Wharf in...
The NLA distributes over £22m each year to national and regional newspapers in respect of copyright works. In 2009 the NLA licensed over 1000m copies of newspaper cuttings from more than 1,400 titles and collected licence fees from over 8300 licensees (representing over 150,000 organisations).
In 2006 the NLA launched eClips, an online database of newspaper cuttings. In 2008, it launched ClipSearch, allowing anyone to search and retrieve original newspaper articles from around the UK, updated 72 hours after publication. In 2009, it introduced Newspapers for Schools, to encourage and ease the access of newspaper material to schools throughout the UK. The NLA also supports the Journalism Diversity Fund which provides bursaries to students from ethnically and socially diverse backgrounds looking to train as journalists.http://www.journalismdiversityfund.com/
Newspaper Websites - 2010
In January 2010, the NLA extended its licensing scheme to include newspaper website material. They also announced the development of eClips Web - an online database of newspaper website material. Licensing applies to paid for media monitoring serviceMedia monitoring service
A media monitoring service, a press clipping service or a clipping service as known in earlier times, provides clients with copies of media content, which is of specific interest to them and subject to changing demand; what they provide may include documentation, content, analysis, or editorial...
s who supply online newspaper content and their respective clients. Operating under licence means that organisations are protected from copyright infringement and publishers earn royalties for use of the content they have invested in creating. The majority of media monitoring agencies have signed up for the new NLA web licence with the exception of Meltwater News who in conjunction with the PRCA have referred the scheme to the Copyright Tribunal. In May 2010 the NLA announced action in the High Court and on 26 November the High Court ruled in favour of the NLA. The case was appealed and heard by the UK's Court of Appeal in June 2011. They upheld the decision in the High Court case and gave a clear declaration that most (if not all) businesses subscribing to a media monitoring service that contains content from online newspapers require a licence.
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UK press cuttings agencies include:
- Durrants
- Adfero
- Cision
- Mediagen
- Precise/KBBI/EdS
- Press Data Ltd
- Pressindex
- Presswatch (now part of TNS Media Intelligence)
- TNS Media Intelligence