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| COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTER'S RIGHTSLINK JOINS WITH SCOOP REPRINTSOURCE TO HELP ONLINE PUBLISHERS STREAMLINE DELIVERY OF CUSTOM REPRINTS VIA E-COMMERCE DANVERS, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Jan. 15, 2002 Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), the world's largest licensing agent for text reproduction rights, and Scoop ReprintSource (Scoop) today announced a strategic alliance that will enable publishers who use Rightslink, CCC's digital rights management solution, to streamline delivery of custom reprints to their customers by taking reprint orders right at their Web sites. Using Rightslink, publishers and other online content providers license and deliver content to a customer directly from their Web sites. Customers who wish to order reprints of articles, news items and other content click on a link located near the item they wish to reprint. The Rightslink service instantly forwards the order to Scoop which, in turn, will provide price quotes for high-quality customized reprints and then produce the reprints to fulfill customers' orders. "By aligning with Scoop, we offer our publisher partners yet another way to monetize their online content, and we offer end users another efficient way to license online content," said Rick Miller, CCC's manager of market analysis and development. "As more and more information consumption moves to the digital realm, information providers must replicate their real-world services in the digital environment." "The new alliance between CCC and Scoop will further leverage the productive relationships we have with both parties," said Peter Simmons, director of The New York Times Agency. "Most importantly, our constituency will enjoy a streamlined ordering process and the highest quality reprint product." "We are excited about our relationship with CCC, the leader in rights management," said Kristy Allan, General Manager of Scoop ReprintSource. "By making our services available via CCC's Rightslink licensing service, Scoop will provide a convenient and efficient method for Web users to place custom reprint orders for high-quality custom reprints of publishers' content." CCC's Rightslink suite of services also includes Rightslink Security, a document security service that allows publishers to restrict access to their premium content. Rightslink is licensing and delivering content on a number of leading publishers' Web sites, among them the online editions of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Dow Jones Reprints and Information Week. MSNBC, Cahners Business Information, CMP Media LLC and Blackwell Publishing have also contracted to use Rightslink to instantly license and deliver content from over 150 Web sites. | ABOUT COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTER Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) is the world's largest licensing agent for text reproduction rights and provider of many licensing services for reproducing copyrighted materials in print and electronic formats. The company was formed in 1978 to facilitate compliance with U.S. copyright law. CCC currently manages rights relating to over 1.75 million works and represents more than 9,600 publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creators, directly or through their representatives. CCC-licensed customers in the U.S. number over 10,000 corporations and subsidiaries (including 92 of the Fortune 100 companies), as well as thousands of government agencies, law firms, document suppliers, libraries, academic institutions, copy shops and bookstores. CCC is a member of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations, (IFRRO) and has bilateral agreements with reproduction rights organizations in 14 countries worldwide, under which it repatriates fees for overseas use of U.S. works. CCC can be found on the World Wide Web at copyright.com. ABOUT SCOOP REPRINTSOURCE Scoop ReprintSource (Scoop) creates, markets and produces high-quality custom reprints, eprints and other derivative media products featuring publisher content. By providing customized reprint services and programs to publishers, Scoop enables publishers to generate additional revenues from their print and online content. Scoop serves as the exclusive reprint service for numerous newspapers, magazines and online publications, including The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, and American City Business Journals. For more information, visit Scoop's Web site at scoopreprintsource.com. Copyright Clearance Center and the CCC logo are registered trademarks of Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. Rightslink is a trademark of Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. |