Press Gazette: FT.com launches press clippings service
Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 10:34
"The Financial Times has launched an online press cuttings service as the Newspaper Licensing Agency has ceased issuing new licences for digital images and scans of FT articles."
Press Gazette: Newspaper Licensing Agency suspends invoicing users of new ‘link tax’
Thursday, 7 January 2010, 16:36
"The Newspaper Licensing Agency said today it has suspended charging users of media monitoring services for access to news clippings until after the completion of a Copyright Tribunal brought against it by clippings firm, Meltwater."
SourceWire: Newsnow to pull links to national newspaper content
Monday, 14 December 2009, 21:47
"NewsNow.co.uk … is to pull all links to many national newspaper websites from its subscription service as a result of a failure to reach agreement with The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited (the NLA) over the NLA's proposed 'Web Database Licence' scheme."
PR Week: An open letter to the Newspaper Licensing Agency
Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 16:06
CIPR president Kevin Taylor: "I want newspapers to be successful and profitable. I want good standards of journalism and I’m prepared to do my bit: buy a quality daily newspaper and not rely on the free sheets. I hope advertising and online revenues pick up and our best newspapers survive and thrive. But these latest proposed NLA charges are not the way to fund the newspaper industry. They are nonsensical."
Press Gazette: Newspaper Licensing Agency to regulate web hyperlinks
Thursday, 18 June 2009, 16:50
"The NLA will be introducing a new form of licence from 1 September to regulate 'web aggregator services (such as Meltwater) that forward links to newspaper websites and for press cuttings agencies undertaking this type of activity'. … There is no attempt to regulate use of hyperlinks where that is not as part of a chargeable service, such as by private individuals or as the results of queries by internet search engines such as Google News."
