The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited, UK

NLA, The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited, UK

Wellington Gate
Church Road
Tunbridge Wells
TN1 1NL
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1892 525 273
Fax: +44 1892 525 275
Email: copy@nla.co.uk
web: http://www.nla.co.uk

KEY REPRESENTATIVES
Managing Director : David Pugh
Commercial Director : Andrew Hughes
Business Development Manager : Michael Pocock

HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
History of the organisation : The NLA was formed in 1996 to operate a scheme to license and collect revenue from the copying of cuttings from newspapers; the eClips database of UK newspaper content began supplying Media Monitoring Organisations in 2006 and licensing of newspaper-owned websites began in 2010.
Year of incorporation : 1996
Year of first collection : 1996
Year of first distribution : 1996

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members : 11
How are Board Members elected : National newspaper publisher representatives plus one authors representative

Members:
Remarks about the members : The NLA holds mandates from the publishers of 1,400 newspapers (including all the English national newspapers) and 1,000 websites.

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION

Type of National legislation :

Civil law : No
Common law : No
Other Law: The NLA operates under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended by the EU Directive which came into force in October 2003.

Licensing system:
Voluntary Licencing schemes, with potential back-up in Copyright Laws

LICENCES
Reprographic licences
Types of works licensed : newspapers, newspaper websites
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : Companies, firms, associations, government departments, local government authorities, schools, colleges, universities and other organisations. Media Monitoring Organisations and Public Relations Consultancies. Over 200,000 organisations now have the benefit of an NLA licence


Digital Licences
Types of works licensed: The NLA offers digital rights allowing licensees to digitally scan and distribute cuttings from print and web editions.
Pilot Projects : NLA is working with CFC to develop the eClips platform to deliver a new service of French newspaper content to CFC's media monitoring clients. The service is expected to launch in 2012.


Other Licences
Public Lending Rights : No
Other areas of licensing : Press cuttings agencies and some public relations consultancies are permitted to supply copies to their clients.

DISTRIBUTION
Outline of Distribution plan and methodology used : Title Specific Distributions
Title-specific distribution : Yes
Non title-specific distribution : No
Both title-specific distribution and non title-specific distribution : No
Full reporting : No
Sampling : No
Statistical surveys : No
Objective availability : No
Possibility to be copied : No


AGREEMENTS
Bilateral agreements type A with : CAL (Australia), CFC (France), CCC (USA), Prolitteris (Switzerland), Stichting Reprorecht (The Netherlands), Literar-Mechana (Austria), Access Copyright (Canada), Copibec (Canada), Kopinor (Norway), Copyrus (Russia), Newspaper Licensing Ireland NLI (Republic of Ireland), Kopiosto (Finland), Reprocopy & Copiepresse (Belgium) The NLA has recently added Digital Academic rights to most of the above agreements and is currently negotiating Type A agreements (or equivalents) with a number of RROs.
Bilateral agreements type B with : Unilateral: VG Wort (Germany), CLL (New Zealand), HKRRLS (Hong Kong)

FINANCIAL DATA


Total amount collected for all licensing :
GBP 23,858,000.00 (+/- EUR 27,716,078.07)

Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing :
GBP 23,454,000.00 (+/- EUR 27,246,747.21)

Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide :
GBP 404,000.00 (+/- EUR 469,330.86)

Total amount distributed to national rightsholders :
GBP 18,394,000.00 (+/- EUR 21,368,494.42)

Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs :
GBP 591,000.00 (+/- EUR 686,570.63)

Total amount distributed from all licensing :
GBP 18,703,000.00 (+/- EUR 21,727,462.83)


The exchange rate of 1 January 2011 was applied, being EUR 1= 0.8608 GBP