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Schools Licensing Review
NLA media access has reviewed its schools licensing policy. For the past 10 years NLA has offered schools a free copying licence covering paper copying of most UK newspapers. This approach runs counter...
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The future of content? A publisher’s dilemma
News UK chief executive Mike Darcey has been clocking up column inches of his own, with his speech at the Institute of Directors containing some pointed comments on paywalls. Discussing The Times...
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Are proposals to create exceptions to copyright answering problems or...
Ever since the publication of the Hargreaves Review, NLA media access and other agencies representing publishers in the creative sector have been responding to UK Government consultations on various...
View ArticleNLA media access partners with CLA to simplify copyright licensing in education.
NLA media access and the Copyright Licensing Agency have this morning issued the following joint announcement. Commenting on the news, Richard Hooper, author of the Copyright Works report and Chair of...
View ArticleBarry McIlheney, CEO of the PPA, discusses how publishers can generate...
Published on the PPA blog today the CEO of the PPA explains how PPA members can generate licensing revenue from their copyrighted content. See the full article for details and contact information.
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Diversity in journalism celebrated at The Sun
This week NLA media access gave the Journalism Diversity Fund a further £100,000 donation, helping to fund the bursary scheme over the next year. The Journalism Diversity Fund, which supports the...
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Licensing for the digital age: The Copyright Hub one year on
NLA media access is a keen supporter of the Copyright Hub, an industry initiative aimed at providing solutions to the questions posed by Richard Hooper’s excellent ‘Copyright Works’ report. The...
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IP and the creative industries: risk and rewards
“We are blessed in the UK with extraordinary creativity which is backed up by superb training in technical skills and a supportive tax regime. All this will be put at risk if creators cannot rely on...
View ArticleNLA media access announces BMJ CEO Tim Brooks as new chairman
NLA media access, the company responsible for collective licensing of newspaper and magazine publishers’ content, has named Tim Brooks as its new Chairman. Tim will take over from Richard Withey,...
View ArticlePaywalls - World Publishers
The World Publishers expo in Berlin last week gave the industry a valuable opportunity to discuss strategies to meet the challenge of growing revenue in the digital age. Affiliate links strategies,...
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Copyright Hub CEO appointed
There will be, I’m sure, a general welcome among people who value copyright and the support that licensing gives to the creative industries at the news that Dominic Young is taking on the job of CEO of...
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Licences for Europe
Over the past year NLA media access and the Newspaper Publishers Association have been contributing to an initiative called Licences For Europe, the European Commission's review of the state of...
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Celebrating 100 years of the Professional Publishers Association
Last night I was delighted to attend the PPA’s centenary dinner, celebrating its long history representing the media publishing business. Part of the post dinner entertainment was the announcement of...
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The PPA Independent Publisher Conference and Awards 2013
In the oft repeated narrative of industry decline and economic hardship it is easy to forget that many niche, specialist and independent publishers are thriving, growing businesses. Nowhere is this...
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Technology to help picture agencies - Photochecker
NLA media access believes technology should help copyright owners. We invest in technology to make content easier to use, to create transparency, and to make it easier for content owners to get paid...
View ArticleNLA helps magazine publishers reclaim their royalties with dedicated...
NLA media access, one of the UK’s media licensing agencies, is launching an awareness campaign to help UK magazine publishers claim historic and future royalties for use of their content. The microsite...
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Helping publishers monitor and control copyright infringement
During most weeks over 1700 web domains infringe copyright content of just four national newspaper publishers. In one recent week one domain alone (www.libreprensa.com) infringed 813 articles. The next...
View ArticleCopyright licensing for schools
Over the past year representatives of the creative industries have worked together to implement recommendations from Richard Hooper’s report on streamlining copyright licensing for schools. As a result...
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ClipShare: A vital resource for publishers and journalists
NLA media access is best known for licensing newspaper and magazine content to thousands of communications and PR professionals and supplying published content to media monitoring agencies through the...
View ArticleNLA vs Meltwater and Svensson vs Retriever – a clarification
The recent Svensson/Retriever decision by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) on hyperlinking has inevitably drawn some incorrect comparisons with the NLA/Meltwater case. As ever, the complex world...
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