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EUROPES PUBLISHERS WELCOME NEW GERMAN LAW

TO FORCE CONTENT AGGREGATORS AND SEARCH ENGINES TORECOGNISE COPYRIGHT

The European Publishers Council (EPC) welcomes todays decision by the GermanBundestag to approve an ancillary copyright for news publishers in law that means thatsearch engines and other aggregators who commercialise publishers content will nolonger be able to do so without permission. The "Leistungsschutzrecht," as it is known inGerman, will pave the way for commercial negotiations between the parties on the pricefor the commercial use of publishers' content.

EPC Chairman and CEO of Impresa in Portugal, Francisco Pinto Balsemo, said: The EPC

welcomes this important vote in the German Bundestag today which recognises clearly incopyright law both the value and the cost of investment in professional journalisticcontent."

The new law will only apply to those companies who exploit commercially third partycontent such as content aggregators and search engines. The proposed provisionsignifies no change at all to possible uses by other users, or for consumers, bloggers orcompanies and associations who may use links or cite passages of published content.News publishers can now demand that search engines and other providers of suchservices that aggregate their content, refrain from unauthorised forms of usage. Thesecompanies will need licences for such usage in the future.

The EPC believes that this law will help establish a market for aggregator content. Newinnovative business models can now be built based on legally licensed content.

Meanwhile the EPC is actively working on creating the technical infrastructure thatwill facilitate the communication of online digital rights. Its project, the Linked Content

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Coalition, has devised a new Rights Reference Model (RRM), due to be published forcomment over the next few weeks. The RRM brings together for the first time all the

different licensing models and languages for all kinds of content: text, images, video,music, for example. This project seeks to solve the problem and address the criticismthat it is often difficult to work out how to use online content legally for individuals,businesses and for automated tools.

EPCs Executive Director, Angela Mills Wade said: With the right legal conditions andthe technical tools provided by the Linked Content Coalition, it will be easy to accessand use content legally. This will mean that publishers will have the incentive tocontinue to populate the internet with high-quality, authoritative, diverse content andto support new, innovative business models for online content.

For further information, please contact Angela Mills Wade, EPC Executive Director, onTel: +44 1865 310 732 or Heidi Lambert on Tel: +44 7932 141 291

www.epceurope.euwww.linkedcontentcoalition.org

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EPC MEMBERS:

Chairman:

Mr. Francisco Pinto Balsemo,Chairman and CEO,Impresa, Portugal

Members:

Dr. Carlo de Benedetti, Chairman,Gruppo Editoriale LEspresso, Italy

Mr. Jonas Bonnier, CEO,Bonnier, Sweden

Mr. Oscar Bronner,Publisher & Editor in Chief,Der Standard, Austria

Dr. Hubert Burda, Chairman and CEO,Burda Media, Germany

Mr. Juan Luis Cebrian, CEO,Groupo Prisa, SpainMr. Mike Darcey,Chief Executive,News International Ltd, UK

Dr. Mathias Dpfner, Chief Executive,Axel Springer AG, Germany

Mr. Erik Engstrom,Chief Executive,Reed Elsevier

Mr. Luis Enriquez,CEO,Vocento, Spain

Ms. Rona Fairhead,Chief Executive,Financial Times Group, UK

Mr. Simon Fox, Chief Executive,Trinity Mirror plc, UK

Dr. Stefan von Holtzbrinck,President and Chairman of the Executive Board,Verlagsgruppe

Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, Germany

Mr. Harri Pekka Kaukonen,CEO,Sanoma Corporation, Finland

Dr.Torsten-Jrn Klein,Gruner + Jahr, Germany

Mr. Steffen Kragh,President and CEO,The Egmont Group, Denmark

Mr. Murdoch MacLennan, Chief Executive,Telegraph Media Group Ltd, UK

Mr Andrew Miller, Chief Executive,Guardian Media Group, UK

Mr. Piotr Niemczycki, CEO,Agora, Poland

Mr. Antonello Perricone,CEO,RCS Media Group SpA, Italy

Mr. Panayotis Psycharis,CEO,Lambrakis Press Group, Greece

Mr. Michael Ringier, President,Ringier, Switzerland

The RT. Hon. The Viscount Rothermere, Chairman,Daily Mail and General Trust, UK

Mr. Rolv Erik Ryssdal,CEO,Schibsted, Norway

Mr. Jim Smith, Chief Executive,Thomson Reuters

Mr. Christian Van Thillo, Chief Executive,De Persgroep, Belgium

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