The marathon legal case Repropol have fought to establish licensing on Ploan grinds towards a conclusion, with a further appeal court date now set for 18th June. The journey has…

A ruling from the French competition authorities on April 9th requires Google to negotiate licence fees with French publishers. This ruling will likely encourage licensing efforts under the DSM Article 15 framework across the EU.

PDLN has confirmed that its annual conference - originally planned for Vienna in June - has been postponed till further notice. We hope that it may be possble to reconvene in the autumn. We expect to annouce some smaller scale video conference events shortly.

Media monitoring companies have been advised by Dutch newspaper owners Mediahuis that their Netherlands titles have made an exclusive agreement with LexisNexis. This means any client with more than 100 staff would need a licence with…

The PDLN EPC seminar on DSM licensing in Brussels 4th February drew the largest delegate numbers we have ever experienced, with 46 attendees from 19 countries gathering to share news on how the directive is being implemented across Europe

The German government has followed up its farcical maladministration of the old German publisher's right (which led to the publishers legal action against Google being halted by the ECJ) with a draft implementation of the EU directive that

A lively and very well attended PDLN seminar was held on 21st November on the topic of text and data mining, and the implications of Article 4 in the DSM Copyright Directive. Conversation ranged widely over many related topics, reflecting member interest in how implementation will change licensing models.

PDLN board members Javier Diaz Olarte and Thomas Veljemand have been elected to the boards of IFRRO and FIBEP respectively. Sandra Chastanet was re-elected to the IFRRO board. Congratulations to all.