All of the publications we represent are protected by copyright, whether they are print (hard copy) publications or online publications. These publications contain various copyright works, such as articles, editorials, etc.

Copyright in a work is infringed when someone who is not the owner does something that is a “restricted act” without permission from the copyright owner. A licence is a way of giving that permission.

Restricted acts include copying (which can include uploading, downloading, saving electronically, forwarding electronically, printing, etc.), adapting, or circulating a work or a substantial part of it. Many restricted acts are activities that most organisations and businesses do routinely as part of day-to-day business practice. Having a licence that covers these activities means that businesses can get on with their day-to-day activity lawfully.

Copyright licensing is also an important source of revenue for publishers, complementing their sales revenues and helping them to continue to provide quality journalism.

Our End User Licence Agreement covers the sort of copying that most businesses do on a day-to-day basis. It is also designed to supplement your subscription agreement with the publisher and your media monitoring contract if you have either or both of these.

Here are some examples of activities that usually require a licence and can be covered by our End-User Licence:

• Saving or uploading copies of articles to an intranet or other archive.
• Making copies, for example, printing, scanning, or creating PDFs, “snips”, screen-shots, or other digital copies.
• Distributing (via hard copy, email, social media, uploading to a website, or otherwise) any of the following:
  • printed, digital, or scanned copies; and
  • hyperlinks that have been edited to incorporate a substantial part of the content (e.g., by adding text copied from an article).

For clients of our licensed media monitoring organisations; our End-User Licence also allows you to save, download, copy or store publisher content in media monitoring reports whether that is sent to you in emails or portals containing hyperlinks, headlines, snippets of publisher content.

There are other activities that may also amount to copying and need a licence. It is your responsibility to assess your business’s activity and make sure you have an appropriate licence if needed.

Our End User Licence is customisable, so that you can select the publications you want. You can also add extra activities to the basic licence. Please see our pricing or contact us for further information.

Media Monitoring Organisations (MMOs) are licenced by the MCA to use our publishers’ content to create MMO materials for clients and send those materials to clients. Importantly, however, they don’t have permission to grant any copying licence to their clients who are carrying on business in New Zealand. These clients need to obtain their own licence for any copying they undertake.

In practice, most businesses with an MMO contract will be copying the publisher content in their MMSO reports in some way and so will need a licence for multiple publications to enable them to do that copying without infringing copyright.  Each of our publishers has appointed us to provide licences on their behalf for this purpose. This is what our End User Licence does – it gives the right to copy from all the publications from our list that you choose.

We have a different licensing structure for MMSO clients who are operating only outside New Zealand, with a different fee structure.

Our End User Licence is designed to work with corporate subscriptions.

Publishers decide what activities they allow under their corporate subscription terms, but most allow only very limited copying. For example, they may allow you to access and read (view) the content on their website for business purposes but prohibit any other copying. This is where our End-User Licence comes in – it allows a wide range of copying activity.

Also, your corporate subscription will likely only relate to one publication or one publisher.  An End User Licence is customisable and can cover a range of other publications that people in your business have access to. 

Our End-User Licence allows you to copy the website content that is covered by your licence, provide it is only for internal business purposes. (Some restrictions apply  – please see “What can’t I do under the End-User Licence.”)

Our basic licence allows copying of articles for your business’s internal use. However, there are some things that our End-User Licence doesn’t allow you to do with publisher content: Some examples are:

• use for advertising or publicity;
• use for external business purposes, such as where you are selling copies or adaptations of content;
• use in a way that could be substitute for the relevant publication(s);
• use to train artificial intelligence;
• copying audio or video content and certain other content;
• (unless you have an appropriate extension) sending copies to a person outside your business.

Please see the licence terms for details of all exclusions and restrictions.