Copyright Clearance Center
Encyclopedia
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a not-for-profit U.S. company based in Danvers, Massachusetts
, that provides collective copyright
licensing services for corporate and academic users of copyrighted materials. CCC procures agreements with rightsholders, primarily text publishers and authors, both for print and online, and acts as agent for them. This "collective agent" status allows CCC to represent thousands of publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creators.
Collective licensing, as distinct from statutory licensing, is a means through which a user (licensee) can pay one annual fee for the use of all the covered materials of CCC’s publishers and authors. This arrangement provides one-stop shopping for the user, and obviates the need for users to track down many rightsholders, many times, for many uses of copyrighted content.
s, magazine
s, images, blogs and e-book
s. Founded in 1978 as a not-for-profit organization by authors publishers and content users in response to a suggestion of Congress
preceding the Copyright Act of 1976
, CCC provides smart solutions that simplify the licensing of content that lets businesses and academic institutions quickly get permission to use copyright-protected materials, while compensating publishers and content creators for the use of their works.
Amsterdam
-based RightsDirect, the wholly owned Europe
an subsidiary of Copyright Clearance Center established in 2010, provides copyright compliance solutions for European-based companies to re-use and share the most relevant print and digital content in books, journals, newspapers, magazines and images.
- CCC is a not-for-profit organization organized in the State of New York with an independent board of directors.
- CCC provides licensing services to over 400 of the Fortune 500
companies.
- 35,000 corporations with employees in 180 countries are covered by CCC’s Annual Copyright License.
- CCC manages over 400 million rights to works in all formats.
- More than 1,100 academic institutions in the U.S. rely on CCC’s Annual Copyright License and Pay-Per-Use services to share information with confidence.
- In the past 10 years CCC has distributed more than $1 billion in royalties to rightsholders it represents.
- For the 4th straight year, CCC was named to EContent Magazine’s list of 100 companies that “matter most in the content industry.”
- CCC is a founding member of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO).
Danvers, Massachusetts
Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on the Danvers River near the northeastern coast of Massachusetts, Danvers is most widely known for its association with the 1692 Salem witch trials, and for its famous asylum, the Danvers State Hospital.-17th century:The land...
, that provides collective copyright
Copyright
Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...
licensing services for corporate and academic users of copyrighted materials. CCC procures agreements with rightsholders, primarily text publishers and authors, both for print and online, and acts as agent for them. This "collective agent" status allows CCC to represent thousands of publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creators.
Collective licensing, as distinct from statutory licensing, is a means through which a user (licensee) can pay one annual fee for the use of all the covered materials of CCC’s publishers and authors. This arrangement provides one-stop shopping for the user, and obviates the need for users to track down many rightsholders, many times, for many uses of copyrighted content.
Background
CCC is a global rights broker for the world’s most sought after materials, including millions of in- and out-of-print books, journals, newspaperNewspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
s, magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
s, images, blogs and e-book
E-book
An electronic book is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital...
s. Founded in 1978 as a not-for-profit organization by authors publishers and content users in response to a suggestion of Congress
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....
preceding the Copyright Act of 1976
Copyright Act of 1976
The Copyright Act of 1976 is a United States copyright law and remains the primary basis of copyright law in the United States, as amended by several later enacted copyright provisions...
, CCC provides smart solutions that simplify the licensing of content that lets businesses and academic institutions quickly get permission to use copyright-protected materials, while compensating publishers and content creators for the use of their works.
Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
-based RightsDirect, the wholly owned Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an subsidiary of Copyright Clearance Center established in 2010, provides copyright compliance solutions for European-based companies to re-use and share the most relevant print and digital content in books, journals, newspapers, magazines and images.
- CCC is a not-for-profit organization organized in the State of New York with an independent board of directors.
- CCC provides licensing services to over 400 of the Fortune 500
Fortune 500
The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly and...
companies.
- 35,000 corporations with employees in 180 countries are covered by CCC’s Annual Copyright License.
- CCC manages over 400 million rights to works in all formats.
- More than 1,100 academic institutions in the U.S. rely on CCC’s Annual Copyright License and Pay-Per-Use services to share information with confidence.
- In the past 10 years CCC has distributed more than $1 billion in royalties to rightsholders it represents.
- For the 4th straight year, CCC was named to EContent Magazine’s list of 100 companies that “matter most in the content industry.”
- CCC is a founding member of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO).
Further reading
External links
- Collective management of copyright and related rights (book), edited by Daniel Gervais, Kluwer Law International, 2010.
- http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct11/Armstrong-The-Voice-of-Copyright.shtml, Armstrong: The Voice of Copyright