UK: Court Rules Newspapers Can Charge Businesses For Their Net Content [telegraph.co.uk]

News monitoring agencies will have to pay publishing companies to use their web content, the High Court has ruled.
The decision has been welcomed by the publishing industry, which has been concerned about the impact that content aggregators have on traffic to their own websites.

The ruling means that headlines are now considered separate literary works, and thus subject to copyright, which means that clients of aggregation websites that charge for a service will have to pay for a license in order to use headlines, links and short extracts from online stories.