WHO WE ARE

The Press Database and Licensing Network (PDLN) joins companies and organisations, owned or controlled by publishers, working in the field of licensing articles from newspapers and periodicals and/or providing digital articles for electronic press reviews and acting according to their national copyright regulations for the beneficial interests of the publishers.

PDLN was founded in 2008 by companies from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Switzerland and UK. PDLN members currently represent over 5.000 newspapers and magazines from 12 different countries.

The PDLN network aims to protect and promote the interest of publishers in the digital age in relation to press cutting and media monitoring services. Its members want to encourage the development of simple and efficient market solutions to the problems associated with international access to high quality press content and the legal secondary utilization of this content .