Legal Research

Meltware v NLA update

By scott

Missed this last week. Copyright Tribunal has upheld web news monitoring service Meltware?s right to challenge the Newspaper Licensing Agency’s (NLA) Web Database Licence/Web End User Licence. Meltware is arguing that the costs of the licence as excessive and they would be paying around £10,000 to cover around 3.8% of their news sources, and that also that several terms in the licences are unreasonable ? including supplying the NLA with a list of all its customers and notifying their customers that they in turn will need a NLA licence. The NLA had argued that the Tribunal should not hear the case as Meltware has no standing to bring the case as they have not signed up to the licences and that the Tribunal had no jurisdiction. The Tribunal dismissed both these arguments. Both sides can not start submitting evidence and a hearing will be held in February 2011. 

Full post as published by Information Overload on March 26, 2010 (boomark / email).