LICENCES FOR EUROPE Working Group 1 Cross-border access and portability of services Print sub-group...

LICENCES FOR EUROPELICENCES FOR EUROPE

Working Group 1 “Cross-border access and portability of services”

Print sub-group

Licences for Europe - WG#1 April 19th 2013

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COPIEPRESSE

• Creation : March 31st 2000

• Collective rights management company for French- and German speaking daily press publishers in Belgium

• Defense of publishers (authors’) rights:– Since 2000: reprography, private copying and public lending– Since 2007: exclusive management of publishers exclusive rights

on all supports


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COPIEPRESSE ACTIVITIES

1. Information– Annual Mailing to companies/institutions/organisations– Campaign in newspapers (2011 & 2012)– Website www.copiepresse.be – Answers to questions by mail & phone– Publishers’ websites (disclaimers)

2. Letters of summons3. Legal procedures4. Networking to facilitate cross-border licences


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COPIEPRESSE ACTIVITIES

1. Information2. Letters of summons3. Legal procedures4. Networking to facilitate crossborder licences Copiepresse worked with others rights management companies (NLA, Presse-monitor,etc.) to find a way to meet international companies/institutions’ needs (e.g.: the European Commission and its internal press review)=> Result : creation of the non profit organisation Press Database and Licensing Network (PDLN)


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PRESS DATA BASE AND LICENSING NETWORK(PDLN)

• Established in 2008• Composed of companies and organisations, owned or controlled by

publishers, working in the field of licensing articles from newspapers and periodicals and/or providing digital articles for electronic press reviews

• To protect and promote the interest of publishers in the digital age in relation to press cutting and media monitoring services.

• To encourage the development of simple and efficient market solutions to the problems associated with international access to high quality press content and the legal secondary utilization of this content.


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• Protect & promote the interest of publishers in relation to international press reviews

• Support international cooperation between press owned database and licensing organisations – To deliver more efficient international licensing solutions, for

content owners, intermediaries and users• Work in close cooperation with international associations - ENPA,

WAN-IFRA, FIPP, EMMA, IFRRO • Encourage the creation of press owned database and licensing

organisations in countries where they don’t exist yet • Engage in dialogue with representatives of intermediaries and users

of press cutting services (FIBEP, AMEC)

AIMS of PDLN


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• Membership is open to organisations owned or controlled by publishers, working in the field of digital licensing articles from newspapers or periodicals and/or providing access to content databases

• PDLN currently gathers 25 organisations from 13 countries

• Broad range of members: licensing organisations, among which a certain number of RROs, publishers owned databases or media monitoring services and newspaper/periodical representative bodies

PDLN MEMBERSHIP


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PDLN MEMBERSHIP


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PDLN ACTIVITIES

“PDLN Connect”Creation of 2 Working Groups• Technical standards to connect database and enhance

access to international content

• Model cooperation agreement and end user licence

(Documentation available for members)


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PDLN Connect is the PDLN program designed to simplify licensing and supply of international content between PDLN members, MMOs and users:

1. PDLN Connect DLO - DLO Contract2. PDLN Connect End User Agreement3. Technical Standards - Changes Process4. PDLN Connect Technical Documentation5. PDLN Connect Service Level Agreement6. PDLN Connect Meta Data Standards7. PDLN Connect Reporting Standard

PDLN CONNECT


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Thanks to PDLN, some publishers managed - to connect their press content databasese.g.: Press Banking (Belgium) is now able to deliver press content and grant the required licences to Belgian companies interested in Belgian, French, German and Austrian press content -to create their own database e.g : the CFC (French RRO) is now able to deliver content-to create their own rights management company e.g. : Visapress (Portugal) is really active to get in touch with companies using content published by its members

PDLN CONNECTexample


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PDLN ACTIVITIES

Conferences and Forums• Annual conference• Forum with Media Monitoring Organisations (MMOs)• Thematic Seminars

Encourage the establishment of licensing/database organisation in countries where one does not exist

Opportunity for current /future members to:– Share experiences with other organisations– Learn from users’ needs to develop adapted solutions– Foresee business development – identify opportunities & threats


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• What are you doing to improve cross-border access to content and content portability?

Constant investment by publishers in their database Agreements between DLOs and foreign publishers to offer more and more

press content (one stop shop) Reciprocal agreements with foreign rights management companies Discussions within PDLN to develop standard agreements/technological

standards Discussions within ENPA to help publishers create rights management

companies

CONCLUSION


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• What are the main problems or obstacles you are facing?

Lack of organization in some countries (No DLO or right management company),

Difficulties for publishers to obtain all the rights of the different authors (for pictures/cartoons/texts/…)

CONCLUSION


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CONCLUSION

• What contractual or technological solutions could improve the situation?

More and more reciprocal agreements (thanks to dialogue and exchange of views – PDLN, ENPA)

Continuous works towards the largest standardization of technological systems


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CONCLUSION

• Publishers are more and more organized to meet international demands (even if newspapers are mainly a national, regional and local business)

No need to change the current exceptions

• In some countries, publishers are calling for stronger protection ( neighbouring rights, protection of databases) for newspapers under copyright regulations at national level. This helps to strengthen investments in the digital environment and ensure that these investments are not jeopardised by third parties misappropriating newspaper content

• Copyright protection and effective enforcement are necessary to preserve and foster publishers’ investments in professional journalistic content. The current EU acquis already provides a good basis for protection.


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CONTACT DETAILS

Margaret Boribon, Secretary General

Catherine Anciaux, Legal Advisor

Nelly Lorthe, Legal Advisor

Phone +32 2 558 97 80 E-mail : [email protected] : www.copiepresse.be

Andrew Hughes, President

Ditmar Kolb, PDLN Secretariat Service c/o PMG Presse-Monitor GmbH

Tel.: +49 30 / 28493-104 E-mail : [email protected] : www.pdln.info


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