PDLN welcomes Finnish CMO Kopiosto, Dutch OPR and Norwegian Opoint as new members. We now have 42 members in 23 countries.
Amsterdam Conference success
PDLN and guests met for the 2026 PDLN conference in Amsterdam in June. Delegates from Australia, Japan, Korea, most European countries and South Africa joined us. Our hosts, Dutch member ArtikelPro, 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 and presentations can be accessed by PDLN members on this site. As well as the delegate briefings we enjoyed insightful speakers from Microsoft, The Guardian, WAN-IFRA, NDP, MT Connect, Cloudfare, AMEC, FIBEP and Miso.ai.
PDLN meets in 2027 in Brussels 6-8th June as guests of Belga.
Our new discussion groups presented their work to date. 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 run by CLA and content protection (how to prevent illegal scraping of websites) run by Visapress and NLA media access have been established. See https://www.pdln.info/projects-topics (member only area). These discussion groups share licensing experience and learnings.
PDLN welcome the challenges of ensuring press content is used responsibly under market friendly agreements. Our latest newsletter is here (June 2026)
Read the PDLN analysis of press - platform licensing issues here
PDLN - protecting and promoting publisher interests in the media monitoring and platform markets
We work to share best practice in licensing and supply and to create forums for content owners and users to come together to solve the challenges of improving these services. Our members run press licensing services in over 23 countries.
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The Press Database and Licensing Network (PDLN) is an association representing organisations owned or controlled by publishers who license or supply newspaper, magazine and website material for media intelligence, media monitoring, press cutting, press review and evaluation services.