Infomedia is taking over the Norwegian, Swedish and Estonian media monitoring companies M-Brain AS, M-Brain AB and M-Brain OÜ from the Finnish company M-Brain OY. The acquisition includes 100 employees along with company clients, digital platforms and solutions.

License League has ceased operations, citing limited publisher support. The US privately owned content licensing business was run by former Burrelles Luce operations head Dan Schiable.

The Portuguese MMO organizations CISION, MANCHETE and CLIPPING CONSULTORES have been found guilty of using content without authorization from the rights holders represented by VISAPRESS. In its ruling on Sept 4th the Portuguese intellectual property court finally ended a 6 years litigation process.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has recommended sweeping changes to Australian law to address the power imbalance between digital platforms and media companies. These recommendations are contained in its final Digital Platforms Inquiry report, released on 26 July.

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Over 60 PDLN members and guests were at the PDLN Berlin conference, which focused on implications of the new DSM directive on media monitoring. The directive is new and the many opportunities it creates are still being explored.

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Reuters reports that WPP has shortlisted a series of U.S. buyout funds to submit binding bids for a majority stake in its data analytics unit Kantar as it wants to finalise the sale in late June. Four private equity firms are in the running and it is expected to be finalised towards the end of June.

The PDLN media evaluation seminar in Brussels on 26th March saw presentations from Infomedia, PMG, CFC and Belga, with ad hoc contributions from NLA, CLA, CEDRO, NLI, and APA. Dutch financial daily HFD joined as a guest.