privately held company founded 2001 oslo norway headquarters san francisco united states area served worldwide number of employees approx . 1 000 2014 website meltwater.com meltwater is a software as a service saas company founded in oslo norway in 2001 . founder and ceo j rn lyseggen also founded a number of other startups . since 2001 it has added offices in europe north america asia pacific australia and africa . 2 now headquartered in san francisco california the company offers a media intelligence software as a service saas product for a variety of market verticals . the company employs more than 1000 people and has more than 23 000 clients internationally . in 2011 the company acquired jitterjam 3 and icerocket 4 and incorporated their technology into meltwater buzz . in 2015 the company launched a new media intelligence platform called meltwater as a unified solution to solve marketing and business problems with the insights derived from the billions of online conversations and documents living outside company firewalls . the meltwater foundation a non profit branch of the company provides entrepreneurial and software training to promising young african students at the meltwater entrepreneurial school of technology mest in accra ghana . contents 1 products 1.1 non profit 2 aggregation lawsuit 2.1 in the united states 2.2 in the uk 3 references 4 external links products edit meltwater news formerly known as magenta news is an online media intelligence service which searches news sources for keywords of relevance to its business customers . meltwater buzz is a social media measurement tool for tracking and analysis of user generated content on the web . 5 meltwater press is a web based media contact database that uses natural language processing technology to connect journalists with their most relevant covered topics . it can be used to find journalists related to an industry topic and distribute company news to chosen journalists . meltwater reach a search engine marketing solution that automates online advertising campaigns was sold to geary lsf . 6 non profit edit meltwater foundation is meltwater s non profit arm ; it funds the meltwater entrepreneurial school of technology mest a two year entrepreneurial training program in accra ghana . aggregation lawsuit edit two parallel cases developed one in the united states one in the united kingdom . in each case the legality of temporary copies and the online clipping service offered to meltwater s clients was in dispute . it was ruled unlawful in the united states under the fair use doctrine and lawful in the uk under uk and eu copyright law . essentially the two cases covered the same issue meltwater s media clippings shown to clients online and with the same defendant meltwater . the plaintiff differed being a uk copyright collection society uk rather than associated press usa but upon parallel grounds . in the united states edit main article associated press v. meltwater on march 21 2013 u.s. district judge denise cote of the southern district of new york rejected meltwater s claims that its use of web stories drawn from a scan of 162 000 news websites from more than 190 countries was a fair use of copyright protected material in a lawsuit brought by the associated press . the associated press and meltwater dismissed all claims and counterclaims in july 2013 . after the litigation the associated press and meltwater partnered to develop new products that aim to benefit both companies . in the uk edit main article public relations consultants association prca v the newspaper licensing agency nla nla media access part of the newspaper licensing agency nla a licensing organization introduced a license covering media monitoring services which crawl sites and offer paid for services based on its filtered results . relevant results are shown to clients who pay meltwater but do not themselves have a license from a newspaper company or copyright service to read the original mention . 7 8 the case revolved around whether a client lacking a license would infringe copyright by being shown and viewing the extracts from copyrighted material in this way it was common ground that to subsequently view a full article would require a license . the majority of media monitoring agencies signed up for the new nla web licence with the exception of meltwater who argued no license was required by its clients for this purpose and in conjunction with the prca referred the scheme to the copyright tribunal and the matter was escalated . 7 8 the eventual case revolved around whether a client lacking a license would infringe copyright by being shown and viewing the extracts from copyrighted material in this way it was common ground that to subsequently view a full article would require a license . the case was due to be heard in february 2011 . 9 in mid march 2010 in an interim jurisdiction question the copyright tribunal ruled in favor of meltwater and the public relations consultants association prca with the nla was ordered to pay the costs of the suit . 7 the times online not part of the nla licence had separately started to block meltwater s web crawler from its site . 7 however on july 27 2011 meltwater lost upon appeal in the uk high court . 10 11 however the decision was reversed in 2013 by the uk supreme court 12 which ruled meltwater s activities legal subject to certain questions referred to the european court of justice intended to clarify matters of a cross border nature . the rationale was that viewing of copyright works was not and had never been illegal in either the uk or european law 12 item 36 and article 5.1 of the european directive directive 2001 29 ec which covers temporary copies 12 item 9 11 permitted automated copying of a temporary nature for a lawful purpose . as mere viewing by meltware s clients was lawful under uk and eu law the technical automated creation of temporary copies to enable and facilitate this were also lawful . 12 item 16 17 references edit http www.meltwater.com . missing or empty title help http www.meltwater.com . missing or empty title help meltwater group buys social crm startup jitterjam for 6 million . techcrunch . march 22 2011 . retrieved 2012 11 15 . meltwater acquires mark cuban backed realtime search engine icerocket . techcrunch . august 4 2011 . retrieved 2012 11 15 . meltwater group launches new service for media outreach . prweb.com . may 13 2010 . lsf geary . geary lsf group acquires paid media leader meltwater reach . partnership expands paid media digital engagement expertise . prweb . a b c d masnick mike march 17 2010 . uk s times online starts blocking aggregators hours after aggregators win copyright tribunal ruling against newspapers . tech dirt . a b charlton graham 3 november 2009 . the nla explains why it is going after the news aggregators . econsultancy.com . cartmell matt 15 march 2010 . copyright tribunal rules in favour of prca after nla challenges license opposition . prweek . orlowski andrew 28 july 2011 . news leech loses appeal on high court copyright case . the register . conlon edward 27 july 2011 . meltwater loses headline appeal . managing intellectual property . a b c d http www.supremecourt.uk decided cases docs uksc 2011 0202 judgment.pdf external links edit meltwater meltwater entrepreneurial school of technology mest meltwater and nla joint press release meltwater retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title meltwater group & oldid 738971384 categories companies established in 2001privately held companies based in californiasoftware companies of norwayhidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urls navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia 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