Meltwater, UK Newspapers Each Get Partial Victory In Web Fees Ruling

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By: Robert Andrews | PaidContent.org

In its ruling setting copying fees for news monitor clients who receive newspaper websites’ online story clippings, the UK’s Copyright Tribunal has given news monitor Meltwater a partial victory but upheld other rates.

The UK’s main eight national news publishers, through their Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), recently extended their photocopying levy with two new online licenses. Meltwater did not object to the first license, which requires fees between £5,000 to £10,000 from commercial news monitors like itself.































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