BEGINS PRWeek (here): “The Public Relations Consultants Association has won its legal battle against the Newspaper Licensing Agency over the extent to which copyright impacts on media monitoring, but the NLA has said it will raise fees if it needs to.
“The Court of Justice of the European Union accepted the argument of the PRCA and Meltwater that browsing and viewing articles online does not require authorisation from the copyright holder.”
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A MEDIA awards competition recognising the skills and processes involved in programme production – from editing to lighting, and costume design to digital effects – is accepting entries.
A deadline of September 1 has been set for entries to the Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS The Guardian’s media commentator, Roy Greenslade: “Piano Media, the Slovakian-based provider of paywalls to maximise revenue from digital content, has signed up its first UK client: the Aberdeen Press & Journal.
“The paper, owned by the DC Thomson group, is to use Piano’s metered model, which allows ten free views a month before users are requested to subscribe to various packages.”
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AND reports The Drum media and marketing magazine, here: “Glasgow’s two tallest tower blocks are to be turned into the city’s largest advertising display for the duration of the Commonwealth Games as the summer event nears.
“Blowup media are behind the ambitious plans which will include rebranding the derelict council blocks as the Glasgow XX Towers, to mark the installation of two giant displays measuring 20m x 40m each.”
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THE latest set of newspaper sales figures are out – at this very moment, Noon – from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Check out our Media in Figures feature on Monday, for the details of sales of national newspapers in Scotland.
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THE Scotsman’s letters and obits editor, Ashley Davies, receives lavish praise by Bill Heaney, whose illustrious CV includes frequent blogging on allmediascotland.
The praise contrasts with a complaint – here, on his Facebook page, under the heading, yesterday, ‘Money a Hardship for Journalists’ – that not all obit editors are so generous, including by paying.
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WIDELY reported today: Scots radio presenters, Edith Bowman and Ally McCrae, among those being let go by BBC Radio 1, as part of a revamp.
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TODAY’S The Friday Column on allmediascotland.com – by Billy Briggs – is reviewed by The Guardian’s media pundit, Roy Greenslade, here.
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