Screenshot of a Press Gazette article by Andrew Pugh, published on 28 October 2011, titled “Agency says HuffPo story payout sets precedent”. The article reports that The Huffington Post made a payment to Central European News after using a CEN article about Croatian actors without permission, and records Mike Leidig’s argument that the case was significant because it challenged the wider online culture of copying agency material without payment. The piece is important because it shows that CEN’s dispute with digital publishers over unpaid reuse of editorial content long pre-dated the BuzzFeed row, and was part of a broader effort to establish that web publication did not remove copyright obligations. It is useful source evidence for the Proof of Work narrative, showing CEN publicly arguing that online publishers should not simply lift agency stories, even where the story had already appeared elsewhere, and that the original reporting agency still had enforceable rights.