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Meanwhile in Luxembourg, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that viewing a copyright infringement on-screen does not create a liability?– only the person or company who put it online can be sued. The case Newspaper Licensing Agency versus Meltwater comes back to the UK courts for settlement. Meltwater is a Dutch company that sells PR companies access to lists of newspaper clippings?– currently distributed in email. Meltwater pays a licence fee for this to the NLA. What happens to the portion of this attributable to freelance journalists who retain copyright remains a mystery to the Freelance.

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