paidContent:UK: News aggregator may take legal action against NLA copying levy
June 29th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Online Journalism
On Friday paidContent:UK reported this:
“Online news aggregator Moreover is considering taking legal action against the Newspaper Licensing Agency in response to plans to impose a levy on re-distribution of online newspaper articles. paidContent:UK understands more commercial aggregators may also explore action against what they see as a direct attempt to compromise their business model.”
In an update, the NLA’s commercial director, Andrew Hughes told paidContent:UK that the agency wants to ‘work with aggregators, not against them’.
Also see: ‘Going back to the backlink licensing case: NLA’s full statement’ [Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog]
Tags: Andrew Hughes, backlinking, commercial director, Journalism.co.uk, moreover, newspaper licensing agency, NLA, Online news aggregator Moreover, online newspaper articles, paidcontentuk, United Kingdom
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