Features
- Complement your subscriptions and publisher agreements with a single-source licensing solution
- Provide a consistent set of reuse rights across publishers to enable your team to efficiently collaborate
- Includes a harmonized set of rights for the internal-only use of lawfully acquired content with AI systems
- Demonstrate your organization’s respect for intellectual property and commitment to corporate social responsibility
Benefits
- Allow library staff to spend less time verifying rights and obtaining individual permissions
- Limit copyright infringement risk
- Reduce exception handling with a consistent set of storage, reuse, and internal AI rights that apply across a broad repertory of titles
CCC Pioneers Collective Licensing Solution for Content Usage in Internal AI Systems
CCC announced a new AI Systems Training License that will be available later in the 2025 calendar year to both existing and prospective CCC customers, including AI systems providers and organizations developing AI-powered applications. This voluntary, non-exclusive collective license is designed to aid organizations that want to comply with copyright laws for the use of third-party content to train AI systems as well as the external use and certain outputs from trained models.
As a complement to direct licensing deals with rightsholders or as a standalone solution, CCC’s AI Systems Training License simplifies how organizations can legally obtain a consistent set of rights across a broad and growing repertory of works in publishing sectors such as science, technology, medicine, humanities, business, news and media.
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Employees want to be able to reuse copyrighted content such as newspaper and magazine articles, books, blog postings and video content in all formats from as many titles as possible. And they want an easy verification process to know what rights have been granted to them when they go to use that content.
Patrick Flaherty
Assistant General Counsel for Trademarks and Copyrights
The top benefit is the peace of mind that we’re in compliance with copyright laws. Having the Annual Copyright License also gets back to integrity truly being a core value of our company.
Chris Gannon
Vice President & General Counsel
The Annual Copyright License, inclusive of internal AI rights, has the ability to accelerate and mature our ability to explore and deploy AI systems that could enable productivity gains for content consumption use cases.
John A. Zevitas
Vice President & Managing Legal Counsel
The Multinational Copyright License improved the return on investment of the global library.
Cinzia Bussolati
Senior Librarian, Global Library Head
While each individual may only have about five or six key publications they regularly follow in a given year, as a collective whole, it would be prohibitively expensive to have 100+ company licenses to account for all the publications. In addition, it would have been such an administrative nightmare to keep track of those hundreds of license agreements, so CCC hits that sweet spot for us.
Howard Lee
Senior IP Counsel
The [Multinational Copyright] license allows BIAL to have the reuse rights we need from a single source. This simple action is the first step to something bigger, the creation of standard processes for how to ensure we’re using and collaborating with content in a compliant way. This is key for the success of research and development projects and to speed innovation. You create efficiencies by reducing the amount of time spent verifying rights and obtaining individual permissions. This will impact also in resource benefits — savings in solving a problem. And the license also helps BIAL with the single annual fee to manage budget in a very predictable way.
Teresa Silveria
Global Scientific Information Manager
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Chiesi’s library team wanted to create a system to ensure that copyright compliance became second nature for the global pharmaceutical company with more than 6500 employees. To do this, a cross-functional team crafted department-specific education sessions. The results speak for themselves.
Top 10 Misconceptions about Copyright
Copyright is often misunderstood. Employees rely on and collaborate using published content as part of their daily business routine. These uses of published information support innovation, discovery, and growth. These activities may, however, be violating copyright law and placing your organization at greater risk of infringement.
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Annual Copyright License
The ACL is the enterprise-wide, content licensing solution offering millions of rights from thousands of publishers
RightFind Enterprise
The fastest way to access, manage, and collaborate on scientific literature
Multinational Copyright License
The Multinational Copyright License (MCL) extends the coverage of CCC’s Annual Copyright License to your employees located outside the United States