News Media Association chairman David Dinsmore has welcomed the European Parliament's vote to adopt the EU Copyright Directive this week, dismissing claims that the measures will damage the free internet as “wildly overblown scaremongering.”   The industry is...

The European Parliament’s JURI committee have voted in favour of achieving a copyright regime that is fit for the digital age when MEPs gave their backing to the Publisher’s Right. Publishers welcomed the outcome of the vote this week when...

Content creators across Europe including publishers, musicians, authors and film producers have joined forces to urge European legislators to improve and adopt the Copyright Directive in order to provide meaningful support to the creative sector. As well as lobbying for...

Facebook, Amazon and Google are facing significant challenges to their business models in Europe over the next week, as regulators gear up for battles over competition and copyright, the FT has reported today. EU Governments are still in negotiations over...

In a crunch week for the publisher’s right, veteran war correspondent Sammy Ketz has explained how the measure will help protect journalism and vital reporting from war zones across the globe. In an article published this week, the AFP correspondent said...

MEPs have voted decisively this week to introduce new measures which will strengthen news media publishers’ ability to protect their investment in journalism in the digital environment. The European Parliament backed the publishers’ right when MEPS voted 438 in favour...

A veteran war correspondent who has reported on conflicts across the globe has called on MEPs to support the publisher’s right to prevent funding for high quality public interest journalism being siphoned off by the tech platforms. In a hard-hitting...

The News Media Association has called for review and reform of the competition regulatory regime to help tackle the negative  impact of the tech giants upon the publishers of original news media journalism. In response to a BEIS consultation on...

A coalition of European publishers -  News Media Europe, European Publishers Council, ENPA and EMMA - hosted a press-conference in Brussels today where they debunked the myths that surround the publisher's right This came in response to an unprecedented scaremongering...