Publishers

The life of a publisher tends to be driven by print deadlines, advertisers, subscribers, website overhauls and creating good copy. But what about the content that you’ve already produced, that’s floating around the world, either in print format or online? It gets read, scribbled on, shared, recycled … and copied.

It’s when businesses make a copy of your content – whether a press clipping, or an online cut and paste job – that you should be paid a royalty. After all, if copying technology didn’t exist, they would have had to pay for another edition. This is the money you’re losing when a copy is made, and this is why it’s fair that you receive a royalty payment instead. Additionally, it’s likely that someone copying your content without your permission is infringing your copyright. So they should either get permission from you directly, or get blanket permission to copy from your title(s), amongst others, by purchasing a copying licence from a company such as NLA media access (that’s us…).

The types of organisations who monitor and copy newspaper and magazine content range from the specialist to the broad. Some examples:

Media Monitoring firms

Their business is based on keeping tabs on who’s being talked about in the press, and collecting and analysing this data for their clients. To do their jobs properly, they’ll need access to the full text of the national press, as well as industry and specialist publications.