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Feb
14
The implication of today’s verdict in The UK Copyright Tribunal
In 2010, Meltwater and PRCA brought the Newspaper Licensing Association, a for-profit company owned by major UK newspapers, to court because we found their proposed licensing plan for monitoring online news unreasonable.
In today’s ruling, the UK Copyright Tribunal agreed to 7 out of our 9 complaints and slashed the NLA’s proposed license fees by 90 percent calculated over the next three years (Read our press release and my commentary for more information.)
This is good news for all UK companies that need online news monitoring and our estimate is that this verdict saves UK businesses more than £100 million over the next three years. Meltwater’s UK clients will see a saving of approximately £24 million over the same period.
From this perspective, Meltwater’s effort in fighting NLA’s proposed licensing scheme for online news has been worthwhile, but sadly today’s verdict is only a partial victory. Going… Read More
Aug
03
Meltwater applauds the UK Government’s commitment to overhaul it’s outdated Copyright Law
Today’s announcement is very positive news for the entire UK business community and in particular for the digital sector that will be one of the most important in the UK for job creation, innovation, and development of economic prosperity.
The current interpretation of UK copyright law has many shortcomings and is a serious threat to the development of a healthy and vibrant digital sector in the UK. An example is the recent ruling in the Court of Appeal between NLA and Meltwater that makes browsing the Internet a copyright risk – rendering the innocent acts of millions illegal.
This is a very dangerous ruling. The ability to browse the Internet without fear of infringing copyright is a fundamental Internet principle. The UK is not served by this ruling and it would be absurd if its copyright law should clash so fundamentally with how millions of Brits use… Read More
Jul
29
UK ruling makes internet browsing a copyright risk, rendering innocent acts of millions illegal
Browsing is the digital equivalent of reading. When you consume the content of a book, you read it. When you consume content online, you browse it.
The wide ramifications of the ruling by the Court of Appeal two days ago on July 27th in the case NLA v Meltwater & PRCA is that the temporary digital copies a browser creates when opening a website will be a breach of copyright unless a license is granted by the rights holder. The ruling does address a lot of other copyright related issues specifically to the dispute between NLA and Meltwater & PRCA as well, but for the broader audience this aspect of the ruling is the most interesting to fully understand.
Why does this have wide ramifications?
The significance of this ruling is that if you live in the UK, every time you click on an internet link you must have a… Read More
