CCC (Copyright Clearance Center) will head to the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s (SSP) 48th Annual Meeting in Chula Vista, CA (San Diego) next week with a full agenda. Our team will lead thought-provoking sessions on AI licensing readiness and open access with a focus on how to adapt and innovate in the current publishing landscape. Here’s a look at what we have planned and where to find us.
Sessions to add to your schedule
AI Licensing Maturity: Preparing for What’s Next
Thursday, May 28, 2:30-3:30 pm | Education Session 2A
AI is reshaping how research is created, disseminated, and discovered. This session, moderated by CCC’s Roy Kaufman, Managing Director, brings together a distinguished panel to examine what it really means for organizations to be “AI ready.”
The education session will cover how to access your organization’s AI maturity across legal, operational, and ethics from auditing content ownership and metadata completeness to building the policies and partnerships that support responsible AI engagement. Attendees will work through a sample AI maturity checklist to take back to their teams.
Panelists:
- Chris Broekhoff, President, MEI Global
- Roger Schonfeld, Managing Director, JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
- Meredith LeMasurier, Chief Publishing Officer, AIP Publishing
The (Rights)Link Between Simplicity & Growth: What Publishers Need from OA Workflows Today
Tuesday, May 27, 2:15-2:45 | Industry Breakout
Open access workflows have come a long way since CCC introduced RightsLink for Scientific Communications in 2014. RightsLink has grown in capability and impact due to the collective contributions of publishers, institutions/consortia, authors, research funders, and service providers. This common platform is trusted by dozens of society publishers and thousands of global academic institutions to remove friction and cost from the process of publishing open literature.
Shannon Reville, CCC Senior Product Manager, will share examples of how the RightsLink team monitors market shifts and acts on customer feedback to help publishers seeking to simplify OA workflows for authors and deliver on the terms of their agreements with institutions. The session will explore challenges publishers face in operationalizing open access and highlight RightsLink’s key capabilities: automated agreement management, touch-free author workflows, localized billing and payment in China, affiliation disambiguation, and deal modeling tools – how they came to fruition, and how they continue to evolve to support a mixed-model OA landscape.
Let’s Connect – Visit us at Booth 400 in the Exhibit Hall
Check in with the CCC team and we’ll donate to One Tree Planted on your behalf. Learn more about CCC evolving licensing solutions and ways to transform, optimize, and scale publishing models with innovative, data-driven workflow solutions in the CCC Scholarly Communications Suite: RightsLink for Scientific Communications, Ringgold, OA Intelligence, and RightsLink Author Services. We’re excited to discuss the latest and upcoming enhancements to the Suite, including:
- the ability for publishers to surface key author-facing forms simultaneously with APC payments and OA agreement workflows in RightsLink
- new self-service tools for affiliation discounting, and introduction of the Profiles and Agreements Report featuring comprehensive details of the relationship or deal a publisher has with an institution in RightsLink
- new high-quality, standardized funder data coming soon to Ringgold Organizations, complete with a persistent funder ID, funder type, and detailed funder hierarchy. Designed to help publishers make publishing workflows more efficient, reduce manual cleanup, provide clearer insight into funding trends, and produce trusted reporting across systems.
Learn more about the 2026 SSP 48th Annual Meeting.
CCC advocates for copyright worldwide by engaging governments, stakeholders, and individuals through educational programming and resources from copyright organizations, with an emphasis on AI, Copyright & Licensing. Since 1978, CCC has supported content users by providing efficient licensing solutions for their content use. CCC’s non-exclusive voluntary collective rights licensing solutions include ACL for Business, Multinational Copyright License (MCL) for Business, ACL for Higher Education, AI Systems Training License, and ACL for Student Assessments. In addition to licensing solutions, CCC provides software solutions with integrated one-stop access for users to request, receive, and pay for full-text content and permissions to reuse content.