CCC, Copyright Clearance Center, announced the availability of artificial intelligence (AI) re-use rights within its Annual Copyright Licenses (ACL), an enterprise-wide content licensing solution offering rights from millions of works to subscribing businesses.
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.
Advances in AI systems are impacting all industries, speeding up research and development and improving operational efficiency. AI systems rely on a variety of materials, including high-quality copyrighted content, to deliver the most meaningful value. These systems rely on content and the creation and storage of copies that can be accessed for future reference.
As society realizes the benefits promised by AI systems, voluntary, non-exclusive collective licensing solutions like the ACL effectively enable the use of copyrighted materials with AI systems, which create copies and retain the expression of the original works on which they are trained. The license provides users with a harmonized set of internal use AI rights from a broad range of rightsholders and provides rightsholders with remuneration for these new uses of their content.
The full press release, with commentary from CCC and the Association of American Publishers, is here .
About CCC: Since 1978, CCC has supported content users by providing efficient, harmonized licensing solutions that cover their internal uses of content. CCC’s portfolio of non-exclusive voluntary collective licensing solutions includes ACL for Business, Multinational Copyright License (MCL) for Business, ACL for Higher Education, ACL for Curriculum & Instruction, and ACL for Student Assessments. In addition to licensing solutions, CCC provides one-stop access for users to request, receive, and pay for full-text content and permissions to re-use content. CCC actively advocates for copyright worldwide, engaging governments, stakeholders, and individuals with educational programming and thought leadership resources. The organization also produces an online hub, AI, Copyright & Licensing, which features informational resources for creators, publishers, rightsholders, technologists, media representatives, policymakers, intellectual property attorneys, and others.