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Future-facing Topics in Copyright: USCO and USPTO to Stream Discussion of “Copyright Law and Machine Learning”

Topic: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Copyright Licensing & Permissions

On Tuesday, October 26, the US Copyright Office, and the US Patent and Trademark Office are co-hosting a three-part discussion on “Copyright Law and Machine Learning for AI: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?”

20 October 2021

By Dave Davis

45 Years Ago Today, a New US Copyright Act Became the Law of the Land

Topic: Data Management

After almost 20 years of informal and then formal meetings among various groups of stakeholders and then with members of Congress, the Copyright Act of 1976 was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Gerald Ford.

19 October 2021

By Catherine Zaller Rowland

licensing and contracts intellectual property

Deadline 2030: The Shape of Things to Come

Topic: Copyright Licensing & Permissions

How will the landscape of copyright and licensing look in 2030 and will it be significantly different?

12 October 2021

By Victoriano Colodrón

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Customer Input Drives Marketplace Enhancements: Q&A with Aaron Reid

Topic: Copyright Licensing & Permissions Customer Experience

As part of CCC’s ongoing Q&A series, we talk with Aaron Reid, Sr. Product Manager, to find out how our customers’ input has impacted the launch of—and subsequent updates to—CCC’s new transactional e-commerce platform, Marketplace.

7 October 2021

By CCC

Building Client Community with RightsLink for Scientific Communications: An Interview with Casey Pickering

Topic: Open Access (OA)

We recently sat down with Casey Pickering, a Senior Product Marketing Manager on CCC’s Information and Content Solutions team, about some of the innovative work going on in RLSC.

30 September 2021

By Dave Davis

Understanding Preprints & Postprints & The Version of Record

Topic: Copyright Licensing & Permissions

Dave Davis focuses on the “before”, “in process” and “final” versions of articles, which is to say, preprints, postprints, and the “versions of record.”

22 September 2021

By Dave Davis

Peer Review, a Critical Step in Scholarly & Scientific Publishing

Topic: Scholarly Communications

Scientific peer review may be thought of as something a lot like the QA component of the software development process – that is, it is essentially the QA step for the production of high-quality articles which are published in high quality journals.

21 September 2021

By Dave Davis

Constitution Day and Copyright

Topic: Copyright Licensing & Permissions

Constitution Day is also the origin of US Federal copyright.

17 September 2021

By Catherine Zaller Rowland

Looking Forward with the RightsLink for Scientific Communications Platform

Topic: Open Access (OA)

RightsLink for Scientific Communications has made some significant strides in the past few years, especially in the way of developing and involving an ever-more extensive user community.

15 September 2021

By Andrew Robinson

Copyright Hygiene for Digital Content Creators Part VI: YouTube

In the last post of this series, Dave Davis looks at the vast domain of the YouTube video & social media platform —which, lest we forget, is a major division of Google/Alphabet — and how its copyright aspect manifests in options for individual contributors.

9 September 2021

By Dave Davis