NLA, The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited, UK

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

Key representatives:
Managing Director David Pugh




HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
History Summary:
The NLA was formed in 1996 to operate a scheme to license and collect revenue from the copying of cuttings from newspapers, such copying being for internal management and related purposes
Year of incorporation: 1996
Year of first collection: 1996
Year of first distribution: 1996

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members: 8
Total number of Author Representatives:
Total number of Publisher Representatives:
How are Board Members elected: National newspaper publisher representatives
Remarks about Board:
The board comprises eight non-executive directors appointed by national newspaper publishers and a non-executive special contributors’ director (representing journalists who retain their copyright) and one executive director (David Pugh, managing director) appointed by the board. One of the non-executive directors acts as chairman.

Members:
Total Number of Member Associations:
Total Publishers' associations:
Total Creators' (authors and visual artists) Associations:
Total Rights holders represented:
Remarks about the members:
The NLA holds mandates from the publishers of 1,500 newspapers (including all the English national newspapers).

DATES OF FINANCIAL YEAR  1 January – 31 December

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION
Type of National legislation:


The NLA operates under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended by the EU Directive which came into force in October 2003.
Legal system: Voluntary Licensing schemes, with potential back-up in Copyright Laws
Other licensing system:
Mandating rights holders:

LICENCES
Reprographic Licences
Types of works licensed: newspapers, newspaper websites
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs, document delivery) :
Types of institutions/sectors licensed: Companies, firms, associations, government departments, local government authorities, schools, colleges, universities and other organisations. Press Cutting Agencies and Public Relations Consultancies to the list of organisations licensed. Some 150,000 companies and other organisations now have the benefit of an NLA license
Pilot Projects:

Digital Licences
Types of works licensed: The NLA offers digital rights allowing licensees to digitally scan and distribute cuttings.
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs,document delivery and storage):
Types of institutions/sectors licensed:
Pilot Projects: The NLA has introduced a revolutionary service that delivers a central database of digital press clippings, “NLA eClips”, to users via their press cuttings agencies. NLA eClips takes data directly from newspaper production systems. Press content is then cut into clippings and indexed using advanced software. This central database of digital press clippings includes improved article search functionality, improved presentation and branding options and an on-line storage facility – ‘My Archive’. In addition, News international has signed up to NLA eClips, meaning that the PR industry now has digital access to the Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and the News of the World for the first time.
End users will also benefit, because NLA eClips provides them with higher quality images, comprehensive coverage of nationals and an archiving function via ‘my Archive’.
The NLA has developed and designed NLA eClips in close collaboration with press cutting agencies and newspaper publishers. Traditional methods of scanning press clippings and emailing large files to clients are time and resource intensive and have created a number of concerns that have needed addressing for some time. Sending cuttings cia email is inherently insecure and slow, large email files fill up in-boxes, scanning reduces print quality for end users and scanning and emailing create copyright protection problems. NLA eClips addresses all these issues and more, because it connects publishers digitally with the NLA, press cuttings agencies and end users. It delivers real value throughout the supply chain.
“NLA eClips” is now used by 17 agencies within the UK.
NLA introduced “eClips International” in April 2009, a new service designed to assist UK and International media monitoring agencies to quickly and easily deliver UK newspaper cuttings to customers based outside the UK. “eClips International” offers full text delivery in XML to 25 leading daily UK and International newspapers. To date 13 PCAs are using the “eClips International” service, delivering electronic links to their clients, including the main French, German and Irish PCAs. NLA have also licensed agencies in Spain, Italy, Croatia, UAE and Denmark. NLA have also agreed a deal with PMG Presse-monitor GmbH in Germany to supply their clients with electronic text and pdf articles from a set of NLA publications.
In September 2009, the NLA introduced licensing for aggregators that scrape newspaper website content and provide paid-for services to end users. This “Web Database Licence” has so far been signed by 21 media monitoring organisations and the NLA is in constructive dialogue with the other players in this market.
The NLA is also investing significantly on publisher’s behalf in building an “eClips Web” service that uses direct feeds from individual publishers to provide web aggregators with a more reliable, timely, fuller, richer feed of newspaper website content.


Other Licences

Other areas of licensing
Press cuttings agencies and some public relations consultancies are permitted to supply copies to their clients.
From 1 April 2006, Press Cutting Agencies are no longer permitted to email PDF’s to clients, they must send links to web hosted site. Clients gain access through the use of the NLA’s new database “eClips” or press cuttings agencies continue to host the articles on their websites.

DISTRIBUTION
Outline of Distribution plan and methodology used: Title Specific Distributions
Distribution methods: Title-specific distribution
Other distribution method:

AGREEMENTS
Number of Bilateral agreements type A:
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)
The NLA is currently negotiating Type A agreements (or equivalents) with a number of RROs.
Number of Bilateral agreements type B:
Bilateral agreements type B with:  Unilateral: VG Wort (Germany), CLL (New Zealand), HKRRLS (Hong Kong)
Other agreements with RROs:

FINANCIAL DATA

Total amount collected for all licensing
GBP 24,090,000.00 (+/- EUR 27,037,037.04)

Total amount collected for reproduction licensing
None

Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing
GBP 23,711,000.00 (+/- EUR 26,611,672.28)

Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide
GBP 379,000.00 (+/- EUR 425,364.76)

Total amount distributed from all licensing
GBP 20,178,000.00 (+/- EUR 22,646,464.65)

Total amount distributed to national rightsholders
GBP 20,916,000.00 (+/- EUR 23,474,747.47)

Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs
GBP 558,000.00 (+/- EUR 626,262.63)

The exchange rate of 1 January 2010 was applied, being EUR 1=0.8910 GBP