UK High Court ruling allows newspapers to charge for web

A UK high court has ruled that news monitoring agencies would have to pay publishing companies to use their content.

The publishing industry, which had concerns about the impact that content aggregators had on their website traffic has welcomed the decision.

News monitoring agencies provide, corporates, public relations professionals, news information created by the media.

These agencies monitor print, broadcast, and internet content for specific subjects of interest, which they analyse and provide feedback to their client in the form of press clippings, monitoring reports, and media analysis.

News aggregation websites collect headlines to reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates.

With the ruling, headlines will now be treated as separate literary works, subject to copyright and clients of aggregation websites that charge for a service would have to pay for a license to use material headlines, links and short extracts from online stories.