Tuesday
Jan172017

More international progress for NLA media access as German agreement signed

NLA media access has significantly extended its agreement with German publisher-owned media service PMG Presse-Monitor GmbH. For the first time German media monitoring organisations and their clients will be able to receive, scan and deliver UK print and web content under their agreements with PMG. NLA and PMG expect this simplification of licensing agreements will benefit users and increase revenue to rights holders.

Prior to the new agreement, which starts in January 2017, NLA offered direct licences to German MMOs. NLA also supplied UK newspaper text to PMG. Now MMOs can get the content and rights from PMG, PMG users can receive content in rich PDF format, and web scraping can be licensed. PMG can also incorporate NLA material in its media evaluation services. The current NLA offering remains in place so German MMOs can choose what best suits their clients.

NLA hopes to extend its direct licensing of German language content for UK users: Süddeutsche Zeitung and Neue Zürcher Zeitung have completed agreements with NLA and other agreements are under development.
Dr Oliver Grassy, MD, PMG said: “We welcome the addition of valuable UK content to our MMO and direct services. PMG is committed to working with the MMO market to create simple solutions for users.”

Andrew Hughes, International Director, NLA media access said: “Germany should be the biggest overseas market for UK content in Europe. Extending our partnership with PMG is the best way to simplify the often complex rules for accessing international content. We know that simplicity is crucial to encourage use, and – following similar agreements in France, Spain and elsewhere - this agreement is a big step forward.”

Friday
Jan062017

Huffington Post the first major news brand to sign up with NLA media access in 2017

NLA is delighted to announce that from 1st January 2017 Media Monitoring Organisations (MMOs) and UK businesses with an NLA licence will be covered to copy from leading websites Huffingtonpost.co.uk and engadget.com.
 
The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news, video, features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged global community for opinion and conversation. The UK edition averages 12 million unique visitors per month (comScore).


Engadget is a leading consumer technology publication. Its web, mobile, and Flipboard presence has grown to reach over 27 million unique visitors per month (comScore). Engadget is also the official partner of the Best of CES Awards and has been the Official Online News Source for the world's largest tradeshow for consumer electronics since 2009.

This completes a year in which the NLA has added Bloomberg.com, Press Association, Newsweek and others to its portfolio of the most important news sources from newspapers, magazines, newswires and websites. It is now easier than ever for MMOs and licensed organisations to access content legally, while reimbursing publishers for use of their content.

Tuesday
Nov292016

Luxembourg the latest nation to sign licensing terms with NLA media access

NLA media access is pleased to announce that it has reached a new partnership agreement with the Luxembourg licensing body LUXORR (www.luxorr.lu). The agreement will allow LUXORR to license local media monitoring businesses and users - including major European institutions - to copy UK newspaper and news website content, including Guardian, Economist, Telegraph, Times and other titles. Luxembourg has long been an important territory for multinational businesses and organisations - these will now be able to cover valuable UK content simply and easily through their LUXORR licence.

NLA’s international director, Andrew Hughes, said:

“We are delighted to have been able to reach this new agreement with LUXORR. With the conclusion of similar negotiations with licensing bodies in Portugal, Spain and Austria over the last six months, the NLA’s drive to make it even simpler for business users to access and re-use international news content legally continues apace”.

By making it even simpler for business users to access and re-use international news content legally, the NLA creates simple user solutions. Revenue generated through licensing goes directly to publishers to support high quality journalism.

In addition to rights exchange agreements, NLA also directly licenses over 2,000 international businesses through its IMMO programme. You can find out more about IMMO here.

Thursday
Nov102016

NLA media access reaches new agreement with PA

The NLA team is delighted to announce that we have reached an agreement to work with PA (the Press Association), the national news agency for the UK and Ireland. This valuable new partnership, which launched on 1st October, ensures content published by PA newswires and used by media monitoring organisations and end users is all covered within the NLA’s licensing frameworks. From now on, when PA content is copied by MMOs and sent to end-users their activities will be covered by an NLA licence.
 
When taken alongside agreements with both Reuters and Alliance News, signing up PA to the NLA roster is a demonstration of the reach we now have across newswires. While newspapers remain the core of our business, we are striving hard to extend our offering to all branches of the media - including newswires, new magazine publishers, born digital and broadcast. This comes at the same time Andrew Hughes and team continue to expand our international coverage, recently agreeing digital rights agreements in Portugal and Finland.
 
We’re delighted to be working with PA, one of the most recognised UK media brands, continuing our work to provide a comprehensive, simple and fair licensing regime for providers and users alike.

Tuesday
Oct182016

CEDRO agreement sees eClips go Spanish

CEDRO, the Spanish national copyright agency and NLA media access, the UK service, have completed a platform sharing agreement which will make Spanish and UK content available to media monitoring businesses across Europe and beyond. NLA will process leading Spanish content through its online database eClips for inclusion in CEDRO and NLA licensed services. The agreement follows a similar arrangement between NLA and French agency CFC.

Both parties expect the proven, simple, timely and consistent delivery of publisher content to MMO services to allow monitoring agencies to focus more attention on client services and less on content procurement. In the UK and France, applications to increase the quality and timeliness of content delivery has already helped market development. By creating a direct, high quality connection between publisher systems to users of media monitoring services, eClips underlines the common interests of publishers and MMOs in serving the needs of PR professionals.

The agreement will also allow consistent delivery and licensing of Spanish and UK content in UK and throughout NLA’s international services, which are used by media firms in many other countries.

Magdelena Vinent, CEO of CEDRO said: “CEDRO is committed to working with publishers, MMOs and service users to simplify licensing and access to news content. This new agreement extends that effort. We look forward to further developing our progressive relationship with the industry”

Andrew Hughes, International Director, NLA said “NLA and CEDRO both want to improve services for users. Licensing bodies like ours connect publishers, MMOs and their users, and build on their common interests of all parties in providing high quality services and clear legal rights. We have proved in France that our eClips platform works outside UK. We are delighted that our relationship with CEDRO has reached this new milestone”.

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