It undertakes collective rights management on behalf of its members and licenses companies, such as press cuttings agencies and media monitoring firms.
In 2009 NLA media access licensed over 1000m copies of newspaper cuttings from more than 1,400 titles and collected licence fees from over 8,300 licensees (representing over 150,000 organisations).
In 2008, it launched ClipSearch, allowing anyone to search and retrieve original newspaper articles from around the UK, updated 72 hours after publication.
They upheld the decision in the High Court case, implying that most (if not all) businesses subscribing to a media monitoring service that contains content from online newspapers would require a licence.
[4]: item 16–17 On 5 June 2014 the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg ruled in favour of the PRCA[5] and found that browsing and viewing articles online does not require authorisation from the copyright holder.