Overview

On 26 November, the High Court ruled in favour of the Newspaper Licensing Agency in the NLA's action against on-line news aggregator Meltwater and the PR Consultants Association.

The outcome is that companies will need a licence to use Meltwater's or any other news monitoring service - in other words a licence merely to receive short extracts from news stories along with a hyperlink to the full story.

This speed-briefing from the intellectual property team at Hogan Lovells has the details.