AI 100 Trailblazer: CCC (Copyright Clearance Center) - Licensing Accelerates Responsible AI

As a pioneer in voluntary collective licensing, CCC advances copyright, accelerates knowledge, and powers innovation, most recently demonstrated by its growing portfolio of licensing solutions to support the use of copyrighted materials with AI systems. Paired with global advocacy, education, and trusted resources, CCC helps businesses, creators, publishers, and academic institutions innovate with confidence.

Expanding Licensing Portfolio Supports AI Use Cases

CCC’s licensing portfolio includes four options to support internal and external AI use cases for business, academic institutions, and AI system providers. These include its Annual Copyright License (ACL), an enterprise-wide, voluntary, non-exclusive licensing solution, featuring a consistent set of internal-only AI reuse rights from participating rightsholders; and CCC’s AI Systems Training License, a voluntary, non-exclusive solution for organizations training AI systems for uses external to their organization.

Using AI in Research While Staying Copyright Compliant

CCC is committed to making copyright work, while supporting technological advancement.

To help bridge AI copyright compliance with innovation, CCC offers RightFind Suite. This set of integrated software solutions empowers researchers to access and manage scholarly content, including peer-reviewed journal articles, quickly and easily while simplifying copyright compliance by putting re-use rights information at their fingertips.

Bringing together AI rights information from licenses, direct agreements, and other sources provides research teams who use RightFind Suite with a one-stop-shop for workflows involving scientific literature.