Library Technology Guides

AI Re-Use Rights for Content Now Available in Digital Copyright License from VG WORT and RightsDirect. In collaboration with RightsDirect, a subsidiary of the Copyright Clearance Center, VG WORT offers an extension to the existing VG WORT Digital Copyright License: The collective licensing solution now also includes rights to re-use content within artificial intelligence (AI) applications for internal purposes. The VG WORT DCL provides German companies and their worldwide affiliates with a consistent set of re-use rights for legally acquired materials from an extensive repertory. [Full Announcement].

CCC makes Get It Now article delivery service available to academic libraries via EBSCO Discovery Service. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announced an expansion to its multi-year strategic agreement with EBSCO Information Services. CCC's ‘Get It Now' academic article delivery service is now integrated with EBSCO Discovery Service, enabling students, faculty, and researchers at higher education institutions to request and access individual journal articles from within the EDS search and discovery platform. Used by thousands of academic researchers worldwide, EDS provides sophisticated search capabilities and superior relevance ranking technology with direct access to the full text of library-subscribed content. For journal content that the academic library does not subscribe to, a link to ‘Get It Now' is provided within EDS search results, where the patron or librarian can purchase the article for immediate delivery as an alternative to interlibrary loan (ILL). [Full Announcement].

CCC introduces Expanded RightsLink author services for scholarly publishers. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, is expanding RightsLink Author Services to provide scholarly publishers with a streamlined way to automate and trigger targeted promotional offers and publication charges for authors at key points across the publication lifecycle. [Full Announcement].

CCC receives national recognition for leadership, work-life flexibility, innovation, and purpose and values for the third year in a row. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announced today that it has earned numerous 2025 Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards from Energage LLC for Leadership, Work-Life Flexibility, Innovation, and Purpose & Values for the third consecutive year. [Full Announcement].

CCC Honored as 2025 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards Winner. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named a winner in the 2025 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards, highlighting the company's “exceptional advancements in AI and the value it brings to stakeholders and the broader community” through its Annual Copyright License, an enterprise-wide rights licensing solution offering companies an efficient way to license rights, including rights for the internal use of legally-procured copyrighted materials within AI systems, and to use copyrighted materials with AI systems by providing users with a harmonized set of internal use AI rights from a broad range of rightsholders. [Full Announcement].

Japan Academic Association for Copyright Clearance and RightsDirect Japan announce the availability of AI Re-Use Rights for Digital Copyright License. The Japan Academic Association for Copyright Clearance, in collaboration with RightsDirect Japan, a subsidiary of Copyright Clearance Center, announced the availability of artificial intelligence re-use rights within the Digital Copyright License, an enterprise-wide content licensing solution offering rights from millions of works to businesses. [Full Announcement].

CCC Announces AI Systems Training License for the external use of copyrighted works coming soon. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, today announced a new AI Systems Training License 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. [Full Announcement].

CCC to Host Virtual Town Hall Discussion on Responsible AI in Enterprise Settings. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, will host a virtual town hall on “Bridging Innovation and Integrity: A Discussion of Responsible AI Practices” via LinkedIn Live on Thursday, 27 February, 10:00 am EST/4:00 pm CET. [Full Announcement].

Corporate executives create the greatest copyright risk according to new CCC market research study on AI usage, collaboration, and copyright. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announced key findings on attitudes about copyright, the adoption of AI tools in the workplace, and content use and collaboration from the newly released “2025 Copyrighted Content Usage Trends” study based on data gathered by Outsell, Inc., a research and advisory firm focused on the data, information, and analytics economy. According to results from the most recent study, executive-level respondents had the highest level of copyright awareness. They also, however, had the highest number of potential copyright violations at nearly three times the rate of middle management and seven times the rate of individual contributors, “underscoring elevated compliance risks associated with senior decision-makers, who are often responsible for broader content dissemination,” according to findings documented within the study. [Full Announcement].

CCC helps emerging life science companies manage scientific literature workflows with new RightFind Software bundle. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces its RightFind Suite Growth Bundle. This one-stop software solution allows small- to mid-size companies to access, organize, and collaborate efficiently around scientific literature. Available via a single enterprise software subscription, the solution integrates features and functionalities from multiple products within the RightFind Suite, including semantic search across authoritative sources such as PubMed, integrated reference management capabilities, and data-driven content usage analytics. [Full Announcement].

CCC appoints Catie Sheret, General Counsel for Cambridge University Press and Assessment, to Board of Directors. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, today announced the election of Catie Sheret, General Counsel for Cambridge University Press & Assessment, to its Board of Directors. As General Counsel for Cambridge University Press & Assessment, Sheret manages a large global team responsible for legal, business ethics and compliance, brand, community engagement, and sustainability. [Full Announcement].

The Boston Globe names CCC a Top Place to Work in Massachusetts for the fourth year in a row. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts for the fourth year in a row in the 16th annual employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe. CCC was ranked #17 in the Top Large Employers category. [Full Announcement].

CCC wins three Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announced that it has earned three 2024 Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards from human resource technology and research company Energage for Employee Well-Being, Professional Development, and Appreciation. [Full Announcement].

Kriyadocs announces strategic collaboration With CCC to enhance publishing workflows. Kriyadocs announced a new strategic collaboration with CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, that features an integration of CCC's Ringgold Identify Database of organization persistent identifiers and metadata into the Kriyadocs Unified Publishing Ecosystem. This partnership will support publishers in significantly enhancing data accuracy and streamlining the publishing process. [Full Announcement].

CCC announces collaboration with Morressier to address research integrity. CCC announced a collaboration with Berlin-based Morressier, creators of Integrity Manager, the online publishing platform that empowers publisher clients with proactive research integrity, from initial assessment and peer review to ongoing investigations and post-publication audits. CCC is developing a researcher identification and validation service to help scholarly publishers and their service providers better identify researchers, their affiliations, and research-related connections, leveraging a broad spectrum of data sources. The service is designed to provide a globally unique PID for each researcher and can be integrated into various workflows within the publishing ecosystem. Morressier is pioneering the adoption of this service through the integration of the beta version in their research integrity workflows. [Full Announcement].

CCC Introduces RightFind Curriculum to Simplify the Use of High-Quality Copyrighted Content in K-12 Curriculum. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announced the launch of RightFind Curriculum, the only all-in-one combined content and licensing solution that enables K-12 educators, EdTech companies, curriculum developers, and custom publishing companies to easily search for, discover, and incorporate high-quality, copyrighted content into curriculum and instructional materials, EdTech applications, and online platforms. [Full Announcement].

CCC Pioneers Collective Licensing Solution for Content Usage in Internal AI Systems. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announced the availability of artificial intelligence re-use rights within its Annual Copyright Licenses, an enterprise-wide content licensing solution offering rights from millions of works to businesses that subscribe. The inclusion of AI re-use rights makes the ACL the first-ever collective licensing solution for the internal use of copyrighted materials in AI systems. The license enables participating rightsholders to fulfill the needs of companies that require an efficient way to legally acquire the rights to use copyrighted materials within AI systems for internal use. [Full Announcement].

CCC helps establish Leiden Institute for FAIR and Equitable Science (LIFES) as a Founding Member. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announced its collaboration with key industry stakeholders to launch the Leiden Institute for FAIR and Equitable Science. In recognition of the challenges that exist with data reuse within the global research community, LIFES is a joint effort by an international public-private partnership of eleven academic and private organizations to build a wide and diverse network of public and private members that want to incorporate FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and equitable data reuse within their organizations. [Full Announcement].

CCC to issue updates to market report on scholarly metadata at the Society for Scholarly Publishing annual meeting. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces that the newest edition of The State of Scholarly Metadata report, which depicts the complexities and value of scholarly publishing metadata, will be made available at the 2024 Society for Scholarly Publishing 46th Annual Meeting 29-31 May at the Westin Boston Seaport District. [Full Announcement].

CCC named a Stevie Award winner for customer service department of the year in the 2024 American Business Awards. CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, was named a Bronze Stevie Award winner for Customer Service Department of the Year in the 22nd annual American Business Awards. [Full Announcement].