The opportunities presented by new and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence must not lead to the erosion of protections for rightsholders which are critical for their businesses, the News Media Association has said. Delivering the budget, Chancellor Jeremy...

The News Media Association has welcomed the government’s indication that it is calling a halt to plans to introduce a new far reaching copyright exception which content creators feared would have a “severe negative impact” on UK rights holders...

Concern is mounting over plans to introduce a new far reaching copyright exception which content creators fear will have a “severe negative impact” on UK rights holders such as news media publishers. In a letter to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng,...

The UK should not be tempted to adopt a more permissive regime for text and data mining which could further boost the ability of platforms and aggregators to profit from news publishers’ journalism without their consent, the News Media...

News Media Europe has called on EU Member States to transpose the Copyright Directive into national legislation without delay in order to help create a fairer online ecosystem for news media content.   The European Commission has started infringement proceedings against...

The News Media Association has said that fake news websites which scrape and republish content from real journalistic outlets to gain advertising revenue pose a direct threat journalism and should be stopped. Several examples of fake news websites targeting genuine local...

Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan emphasised that the Government “supports the goals of the EU Copyright Directive”, which includes a Publisher’s Right granting press publishers a two-year term of protection against online sharing of their publications by internet companies...

Google has been heavily criticised and accused of “flouting the intention” of the Publisher’s Right which was devised to help news media publishers better protect their copyright in the digital environment. The News Media Association has led calls for the...

The News Media Alliance, the trade body for the news media industry in North America, has published findings from a new study that analyses how Google uses and benefits from news. Among the major findings of the study is that news is...