Articles from Copyright Clearance Center

CCC (Copyright Clearance Center), a pioneer in voluntary collective licensing, announced today that it is the sole winner of the 2025 KMWorld Readers’ Choice Award in the “Best Compliance and Information Security” category for its Annual Copyright License (ACL), the enterprise-wide content licensing solution offering a consistent set of rights, including rights for the internal use of content within AI systems, across millions of publications from thousands of participating rightsholders.

In collaboration with RightsDirect, a subsidiary of the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), VG WORT offers an extension to the existing VG WORT Digital Copyright License (DCL): The collective licensing solution now also includes rights to re-use content within artificial intelligence (AI) applications for internal purposes. The VG WORT DCL provides German companies and their worldwide affiliates with a consistent set of re-use rights for legally acquired materials from an extensive repertory.

The Japan Academic Association for Copyright Clearance (JAC), in collaboration with RightsDirect Japan, a subsidiary of CCC (Copyright Clearance Center), today announced the availability of artificial intelligence (AI) re-use rights within the Digital Copyright License (DCL), an enterprise-wide content licensing solution offering rights from millions of works to businesses.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces that CCC Vice President of Finance Jason Edmondson has been promoted to Vice President, Treasurer & Chief Financial Officer, taking over from the recently retired Richard Ruf. The organization also announced that Neal Dunkinson, formerly Vice President Solutions & Professional Services at Elsevier’s SciBite, has joined as Senior Director of Solution Sales, a new role at CCC created to support deeper collaboration with corporate customers.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named a Gold winner for Customer Service Department of the Year in the 12th annual Best in Biz Awards 2024 International. Winners were determined based on scoring from an independent panel of judges from various top-tier publications and media outlets representing all continents and 15 countries.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts for the fourth year in a row in the 16th annual employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe. CCC was ranked #17 in the Top Large Employers category.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces the availability of AI-disambiguated data and enriched metadata, for researchers and institutions, within RightFind Navigate through a pilot for its customers. CCC also announces several powerful new features of the RightFind Suite.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces that its President and CEO, Tracey Armstrong, was named to the Forbes 2023 “50 Over 50” list.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, in partnership with the GO FAIR Foundation, will host its inaugural FAIR Forum on “The Evolving Role of Data in the AI Era” on 18 September at Poortgebouw, the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, will present an interactive webcast – The State of Scholarly Metadata in 2023: Industry Insights From Around the Globe – on Thursday, 20 July at 11AM EDT/4 PM BST.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, was named a Bronze Stevie® Award winner for Customer Service Department of the Year in the 21st annual American Business Awards®.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has earned several 2023 Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards for Compensation & Benefits, Innovation, Leadership, Purpose & Values, and Work-Life Flexibility.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, will present a Town Hall discussion via LinkedIn Live on 10 May at 11:00 a.m. EDT/16:00 BST/17:00 CEST where a VIP panel will share best practices for developing research data that is FAIR through culture, training, and technology. Audience members will learn how to identify signals of improvement and create breakthrough interoperability across research domains.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces an expansion to its longstanding integration with Ex Libris, a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for higher education. CCC’s award-winning article delivery service, Get It Now, is now available via a free add-on within Ex Libris’ Rapido integrated borrowing solution where articles can be purchased by library staff and delivered directly to patrons.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, today announced it has signed a bilateral agreement with the Malaysia Reprographic Rights Centre (MARC) to support its operations and the development of copyright-compliant content consumption in Malaysia benefitting both rightsholders and content users. The agreement enables MARC to include CCC’s comprehensive rights catalogue in the licenses it offers to educational and academic institutions in Malaysia.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, will present a Town Hall discussion via LinkedIn live on 30 March at 11:00 a.m. EDT/16:00 BST/17:00 CEST that will address the questions, “What is the evolving nature of originality and authenticity?” And “What place do human expertise and empathy have when machines provide information?”

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named to the KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management 2023, a list of organizations with pioneering solutions and notable modifications to existing products with a focus on innovation, agility, and the customer.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, today announced The Public Library of Science (PLOS) has adopted the industry-leading Ringgold Identify Database as its Persistent Identifier (PID) solution to streamline organizational data, helping power its Open Access (OA) publishing process with reliability and inclusivity.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has earned a 2023 Top Workplaces USA national award from Energage, a purpose-driven organization that develops solutions to build and brand Top Workplaces.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, today announced key findings from the just released “Information Seeking and Consumption Study” based on data gathered by Outsell, Inc., the voice of the data, information, and analytics industry.

CCC, a leading provider of Open Access (OA) workflow solutions, announces the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), has adopted RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to manage its growing OA program.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in the 15th annual employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe. CCC ranked #17, up from #33 last year, in the “large companies” category (organizations between 250-999 employees).

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, today announced the appointment of David Foster as Chairman of its Board of Directors.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named a Gold winner in the Customer Service Department of the Year category in the Best in Biz Awards 2022 International.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, today announced powerful new permissions and project management capabilities for medical communications professionals on CCC Marketplace, a one-stop shop for licensing requests and article reprints.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, is now offering subscriptions to select publishers including the JAMA Network and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) through CCC’s advanced content workflow solution, RightFind, to meet the needs of researchers in organizations with fewer than 500 employees.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has contracted with the Chinese Medical Association Publishing House (CMAPH) to offer document delivery and licensing solutions for all CMAPH journals. CMA titles will now be included in the Republication License Service on CCC Marketplace and Document Delivery with RightFind. CMAPH is the leading publisher of medical journals in China, including the prestigious Chinese Medical Journal and National Medical Journal of China.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces Evan-Moor Educational Publishers as the newest publisher participating in its Annual Copyright License for Curriculum & Instruction (ACLCI). Nearly 60 publishers have joined the license since its launch in July 2021.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has acquired Ringgold, a longstanding provider of persistent organization identifiers widely used by the scholarly communications community. With offices in the US and UK, Ringgold is now a wholly owned subsidiary of CCC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, is now offering CCC Expert View, a knowledge graph with robust capabilities to help life science companies identify qualified experts, key opinion leaders, and rising stars to build collaboration networks, fuel innovation, and gain business advantage.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces that the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the world’s leading organization for the preparation and publication of international standards for electrotechnology, is now offering document delivery through CCC’s RightFind.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, will present a Town Hall discussion via LinkedIn live on 13 April at 11:00 a.m. EDT/16:00 BST that will address the question, “Is your data management program state-of-the-art?”

CCC, a leading provider of Open Access (OA) workflow solutions, and the OA Switchboard, a global, not-for-profit collaboration between funders, institutions and publishers, announce a collaboration to automate the exchange of OA transactional information between publishers and their customers through the OA Switchboard.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named to the 2022 KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management, a list of inventive knowledge management companies whose offerings are targeted at helping organizations expand their use of information and knowledge.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces a collaboration with Springer Nature to provide mutual customers access to AdisInsight from within CCC’s RightFind Navigate.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been recognized for its Velocity of Content blog and podcast in the “Branded Blog” and Branded Podcast” categories as part of PR Daily’s Content Marketing Awards. Additionally, the host of the Velocity of Content podcast, CCC’s Christopher Kenneally, was among six recipients of the “Content Marketer of the Year” honor.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, will present a Town Hall discussion on 9 February at 11:00 a.m. EDT/16:00 GMT that will address the question, “What’s Ahead for Librarians and Researchers?”

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces Roy Kaufman, Managing Director, Business Development and Government Relations, has been appointed to the Board of the United States Intellectual Property Alliance (USIPA).

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces that it has partnered with CeMPro, the Reproduction Rights Organization (RRO) based in Mexico, to give educators and intermediaries access to reuse rights from tens of thousands of Spanish-language titles as part of CCC’s Annual Copyright License for Curriculum & Instruction (ACLCI).

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named as one of the 2021 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts by the Boston Globe. CCC ranked #33 in the large company category (organizations between 250-900 employees).

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named a Gold Winner in the Strategic Communications/Branding Refresh category in the 2021 MarCom Awards, an international creative competition for marketing and communications professionals.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named a Top Workplace for Remote Work as part of the 2021 Culture Excellence Awards.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, will present a Town Hall discussion on Wednesday, 27 October at 11:00 a.m. EDT/16:00 BST, “Understanding the New UKRI Open Access Policy.”

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, held its annual ‘We Not Me’ global event as part of its year-round We Not Me charity initiative.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, is now offering subscriptions to Wiley journals through CCC’s advanced content workflow solution, RightFind, to meet the unique needs of emerging life science and biotech organizations. RightFind clients will now have an easy new way to subscribe to more than eight million articles from over 1,750 Wiley journals.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces Catherine Zaller Rowland has joined CCC as General Counsel. Additionally, Alastair Adam, Kelly Lake, and Nothando Migogo have been appointed to its Board of Directors.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has streamlined the author experience for those seeking Open Access (OA) publication funding through RightsLink for Scientific Communications, the most widely-adopted market solution to support OA agreements.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has launched its Annual Copyright License for Curriculum & Instruction, helping remove copyright barriers for U.S. schools, education technology companies, custom publishers, and curriculum developers who want to incorporate excerpts of copyrighted content from leading book, magazine, and news publishers into curriculum materials.