[1] It essentially paralleled the US case Associated Press v. Meltwater, insofar as it considered the same questions and essentially the same nature of plaintiffs, and the same defendant, as the US case - namely whether media clippings business Meltwater Group was in breach of copyright by providing a paid clippings services from (copyrighted) news sources, to its clients.
One element was overturned by the UK Supreme Court who ruled users were entitled to view, but not print or copy, a hypothetical reduced Meltwater report without a licence.
The majority of media monitoring agencies signed up for the new NLA web licence with the exception of Meltwater who argued no license was required by its clients for this purpose, and in conjunction with the PRCA referred the scheme to the Copyright Tribunal, and the matter was escalated.
21, 2013) filed on the same grounds in the United States, however, was decided the other way in 2013 (against Meltwater and in favor of the equivalent newspaper licensing business, in that case Associated Press) by a US district court.
The court held that Meltwater's copying was not protected under the United States' "fair use" doctrine and was infringing on AP's copyright.