News copyright theft ‘through the roof’ as 700000 articles taken … – Press Gazette
Copyright theft affecting news publishers in the UK and around the world is “through the roof” as content farmers are thought to be getting ever “more brazen”.
Content licensing organisation NLA Media Access has successfully fought for the removal of around 700,000 stolen news articles in 2023 so far – up from about 20,000 in 2020 and 50,000 in 2021.
Last year’s tally was around 30,000 – although it is worth noting that many of the domain and article takedowns that have taken place in 2023 so far began work in 2022, as it is often a long process.
For example, the website Ukdaily.news – which was being hosted from Moldova, where UK copyright law is not recognised – stole thousands of articles from UK publishers and it took more than a year to have these taken down, having first managed to get adverts removed.
In total, eight entirely cloned newspaper websites have been removed so far in 2023 as a result of the NLA’s Text Tracker, which spots copyright infringements.
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