New Zealand - UK Partnership Announced
NLA licensees will now be able to copy most New Zealand newspapers under the terms of their NLA licences, following an agreement reached between NLA media access and PMCA, New Zealand’s newspaper licensing agency. NLA and PMCA are PDLN members, making this one of many licensing advances PDLN has helped create.
This new agreement further simplifies licensing of international content, and builds on the growing range of agreements NLA has reached with its peers abroad. NLA users can now copy content from over 20 major countries using their UK NLA agreement.
The agreement is reciprocal, and allows PMCA licensees to use UK content. This covers print and web content, and includes rights for media monitoring companies as well as businesses and PR users.
NLA and PMCA are focused on making copyright compliance easy. They know that international content is increasingly important to businesses. Andrew Hughes of NLA said ""We will continue to work to make it easier for UK plc to access and use international news, and to support use of UK content in other territories ".
