Copyright Licence for PR, Communications, Advertising and Marketing Agencies

Independent research by FiftyFive5 shows that:

  • 70% of PR professionals download news or magazine articles from publisher websites
  • 65% share content via email or file transfer to external shareholders
  • 56% of Australian professionals use GenAI tools

Most text and images works are covered by copyright. If your employees copy and share articles, snippets, extracts or images that were created by others, they’ll usually need permission from the copyright owner to do so. This includes content from:

  • Newspapers and magazines
  • Online news websites
  • Social media
  • Industry publications.

Our Copyright Licence for PR and Communications Agencies is a blanket licence that gives your agency permission to:

  • Upload articles from Australian newspaper publishers into AI tools or use them as prompts,
  • copy, share and store third-party text and images within your organisation, and
  • share selected content externally.

Specifically tailored to your industry, our licence gives you the right to legally copy, share and store content from business newspapers such as the Australian Financial Review and The Australian, as well as other prestige titles from Australia and other countries.

Sharing articles

Many PR professionals assume that a media monitoring platform subscription grants permission to share articles with clients, display them online, or post them on social media, but that is not the case. Additionally, agencies are not covered under their client’s media monitoring service.

The ‘Client Sharing’ option in the Copyright Licence for PR and Communications Agencies allows your agency to legally send newspaper and magazine articles to clients – and for clients to share articles with your agency.

This licence ensures that content sharing between your agency and clients is ethical and legal, protecting both parties from reputational risk and potential litigation.

Benefits of the licence

  • Cost effective

    A tailored fee based on the number of employees and your client sharing needs

  • Share media coverage with clients

    Assurance that your exchange of content is legal and ethical including when using GenAI tools to analyse or summarise coverage to share with clients, or vice versa

  • Elevate your brand

    Showcase your media coverage on your website, social media, in pitch decks, showreels, presentations and annual report

  • Flexibility

    No need to negotiate licence permission and fees with individual copyright owners - copy anything with ease of use, we handle everything else

  • Safeguard reputations

    Avoid litigation, costly infringement claims and reputational risk, including from non-compliance with AI tool terms and the use of third-party material in prompts

  • Be recognised

    Show leading Australian companies you're an ethical and responsible agency by holding a copyright licence

Establish Good Copyright Governance

A Copyright Licence is a simple solution to ensure your organisation is practising Good Copyright Governance. It enables staff members to communicate content-rich material in real time while being confident no one’s copyright is being infringed. All Copyright Agency licensees can promote their organisation as a supporter of Australian creators by incorporating the Good Copyright Governance tick across their promotional channels.

 

PR, Communications, Advertising and Marketing Copyright Licence Guide

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