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Annual Copyright License

The ACL is an enterprise-wide content licensing solution, offering millions of rights from thousands of publishers – including internal-only AI rights from participating rightsholders.

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The benefits of content licensing for businesses

From photocopying to artificial intelligence (AI), the CCC Annual Copyright License has supported content users for decades with efficient, harmonized licensing solutions that cover their internal uses of content, enabling users to leverage content they already have in new ways.

Support AI governance and corporate compliance initiatives

With a harmonized set of reuse rights that apply across millions of journals, blogs, newspapers, e-books and more, including rights for the use of content with internal AI systems. 


Enables collaboration across global teams to drive innovation

Compliantly share a copy of an article with coworkers by email, in a collaboration tool, or on a shared network drive.

Simplify responses to customer requests

Compliantly share copyrighted content with clients, customers, and prospects

Optimize regulatory filings

Annotate and submit supporting articles to a government agency as required as part of a regulatory or patent filing.

Success with CCC’s Annual Copyright License

“The Annual Copyright License, inclusive of internal Al rights, has the ability to accelerate and mature our ability to explore and deploy Al systems that could enable productivity gains for content consumption use cases.”

John A. Zevitas
Vice President & Managing Legal Counsel

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“The Multinational Copyright License improved the return on investment of the global library.”

Cinzia Bussolati
Senior Librarian, Global Library Head

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“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

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“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

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“RightFind helps our researchers gain quick access to the content they need, when they need it, but having the content is only one part of the equation. Copyright [compliance with the Annual Copyright License] is the other.”

Christina Bennett McNew
Associate Director of Library Operations

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Annual Copyright License Recognized by KMWorld Readers' Choice Awards for Best Compliance and Information Security

CCC’s Annual Copyright License has been named the sole winner in the “Best Compliance and Information Security” category at KMWorld Readers Choice Awards 2025. The enterprise-wide content licensing solution offers a consistent set of rights, including rights for the internal use of content within AI systems, across millions of publications from thousands of participating rightsholders.

Read the full press release on the Velocity of Content blog.

KMWorld readers choice 2025 winners award

Need rights to train external AI systems?

CCC’s AI Systems Training License provides organizations with a lawful, efficient way to access the rights to diverse copyrighted materials for training AI models for external use.

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How the ACL supports the use of published content with internal AI systems

Director of Corporate Communications

The Director of Corporate Communications combines the key takeaways from a collection of text articles to create a visualization of the key points.

Research Scientist

A Research Scientist automates the literature review process, prioritizing articles of interest for further review, and identifying common themes, trends, and conflicting findings.

Competitive Intelligence Analyst

A Competitive Intelligence Analyst examines news content and market research to better understand the market, customer needs, and the competitive landscape.

Data Analyst

A Data Analyst combines trend data from a set of text documents to create a visual representation to help stakeholders understand trends and identify opportunities and risks to make informed decisions quickly.

Supply Chain Manager

A Supply Chain Manager reviews market reports, news articles, and financial information to provide insights into market trends, supply and demand fluctuations, and price forecasts.

Paralegal

A Paralegal automates the initial stages of research sifting through published cases, statutes, regulations, and law reviews to identify relevant documents and crucial information.

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Annual Copyright License

The ACL is the enterprise-wide, content licensing solution offering millions of rights from thousands of publishers

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