Berlin courts ruled on 18th December that MMOs need permission for a mastercopy (as opposed to one copy per client) digital processing of press content and have rejected Kantar Germany’s counterclaim that publisher owned PMG is abusing market power.

Cision have continued their acquisition roadmap with the purchase of Meltwater spin off Trendkite for $225m. This deal - announced 23rd January - is the twelfth purchase since the Cision - Vocus restructure. Whether they will - or

The final trilogue on the DSM Directive was delayed on Monday 21st January. It was called off on Friday evening by the Romanian presidency, after an almost 10-hour meeting of EU ambassadors. According to reports, a group of countries big

Hidden down a quiet street in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district you'll find a chic hotel that's making quite a splash – just be sure to keep an eye out or you might walk straight past it. Hotel Oderberger is housed within an imposing

A draft report from Australia’s competition regulator (ACCC) into the market power of digital search engines, social media platforms, and digital content aggregators has been published. The ACCC makes a number of policy

CEDRO and Catalunya laid on a late autumn treat in late November with a well attended seminar on web licensing and some stunning weather. Many PDLN European members are preparing for the new EU DSM directive which

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.

PDLN member the Copyright Agency has lodged an action in the Copyright Tribunal to determine the value of the copyright licence Australian universities rely on to copy and share extensive amounts of educational content. The

Following Cision's acquisition of French language specialist aggregator CEDROM and Meltwater's purchase of its competitor Informart, Cision have signed an excusive agreement with Globe and Mail. Smaller MMOs are anxious