PDLN welcomes Finnish CMO Kopiosto as new members
Amsterdam Here We Come
This week PDLN and guests meet for the 2026 PDLN conference in Amsterdam from June 7-9th. Delegates from Australia, Japan, Korea, most European countries and South Africa are joining us. Our hosts, Dutch member ArtikelPro, have arranged an excellent social welcome on the canals and at the beautiful canal side DPG offices in the south of the city.
The conference programme details are on the conference site here. As well as the member briefings we have speakers from Microsoft, The Guardian, WAN-IFRA, NDP, MT Connect, Cloudfare, AMEC, FIBEP and Miso.ai.
Our new discussion groups are active. The AI group - run by OPR and Corint - is attracting significant interest. The EuroHub group continues to support the increasingly succesful licensing of press use by Google, MS and others, and a new groups covering both our core MMO business and content protection (how to prevent illegal scraping of websites) have been established. See https://www.pdln.info/projects-topics (member only area). These discussion groups share experience, and learnings. A summary of theese arnd external presentations they have commissioned will be covered at the conference.
PDLN welcome the challenges of ensuring press content is used responsibly under market friendly agreements. Our latest newsletter is here (April 2026)
Read the PDLN analyis or press platform licensing issues here
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