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Tuesday, 21 May 2013

  • Latest Top 10 Headlines
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  • City AM
    Tesco voted worst supermarket in survey of 11,000 UK shoppers
  • The Sentinel
    Which pie is made of the Wrights stuff?
  • Daily Express
    Dancing has always been my escape
  • Independent i
    Stores making us wild in the aisles
  • The Guardian
    Tesco the UK's worst supermarket - survey
  • The Times
    Tesco drops in ratings
  • The Sun
    Half measure
  • The Sun
    Chips ahoy
  • Daily Mail
    Tesco voted the worst supermarket in the UK
  • The Sun
    TESCO IS 'WORST SUPERMARKET'

About Us

About Us

The Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) is owned by newspaper publishers, represents 1,300 print and over 1,000 web titles and generates £20m a year in royalties for the industry - the equivalent of 800 journalists.The NLA's role is to ensure all organisations have access, and can share, the news they need whilst ensuring they are copyright compliant.
The NLA licenses the copying of newspaper content on behalf of the copyright owners under the authority of the Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988. Over 200,000 organisations rely on the NLA's annual licences, database access and pay per use services to share information. In the last 15 years, the NLA has distributed more than £150m in royalties to rightsholders. The agency is a private company, owned by the UK's eight national newspaper groups. The NLA's infographic gives you additional information on what happens with the licence fees collected and the value of collective licensing.  

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Copyright Law

Copyright law has been protecting and rewarding the creators of content for 300 years, since the Statute of Anne in 1710. The current copyright law in the UK is The Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988, and its amendments. It exists in almost everything we use and is a right granted in law to creators of work including newspapers.

The basic rule is, with a few minor exceptions, if an organisation wants to make a copy of a published work it will need permission from the copyright owner. In the case of newspapers, this is granted by individual publisher permission or a NLA issued licence.

 

 

 



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Corporate Information

The NLA directly supports a number of key initiatives in the wider newspaper industry, including:

Newspapers for Schools Promoting use of newspapers in schools, the NLA's News Library service is a free online service giving schools access to newspaper content.

Journalism Diversity Fund The Fund helps students from diverse backgrounds to train as journalists. Now in its seventh year, the JDF has provided bursaries for over 100 aspiring journalists with NLA donations totalling £780,000 to date. This video highlights the success of the fund and the NLA's participation in it.

RNIB The NLA is supplying the RNIB with a daily feed of text from over 100 newspaper titles. RNIB optimise this content for visually impaired access to create its Talking Newspaper Service. 

NLA Shareholders support many charities through financial donations, free space and campaigns to raise funds.

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