Copyright Clearance Center

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the rights licensing experts, is a global rights broker for the world’s most sought after materials, including in- and out-of-print books, journals, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, images, blogs and ebooks.

CCC serves the interests of those who supply content as well as those who use it. Businesses, academic institutions and other organizations rely on our solutions for the rights to use and share copyrighted material. Publishers, authors and other rightsholders trust CCC to help them drive new bottom-line revenue from global and hard-to-reach markets, while reducing overhead costs and improving customer satisfaction.

Founded in 1978 as a not-for-profit organization, 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.

CCC has paid more than $1 billion in royalties to rightsholders over the past 10 years, and continues to provide copyright licensing solutions to companies of all sizes, as well as academic institutions, law firms, healthcare organizations and government agencies.

In 2010, Copyright Clearance Center established RightsDirect, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CCC, to meet the needs of European-based countries. RightsDirect provides copyright compliance solutions for companies to re-use and share the most relevant print and digital content in books, journals, newspapers, magazines and images. As a rights licensing agent, RightsDirect represents more than 12,000 rightsholders including the most important global publishers.

Based in Amsterdam, RightsDirect aims to work collaboratively with rightsholders associations and Reproduction Rights Organizations. Contact RightsDirect by phone at +31 20 312 0437 or email at info@rightsdirect.com.