The CCC is a for-profit company that manages collective copyright licensing for corporate publishers and academic institutions. Generally, its outlook is to expand copyright protections for rights holders. This week, CCC announced the ability for publishers and other rights holders to include AI rights as part of licensing arrangements. Such licensing allows for non-exclusive, annually renewable rights to use content for internal AI systems (not public-facing ones such as ChatGPT).
The president of the Association of American Publishers is quoted in CCC’s announcement: “Voluntary licensing solutions are a win-win for everybody in the value chain, including AI developers who want to do the right thing. I am grateful to organizations like CCC, as they are helping the next generation marketplace to evolve robustly and in forward-thinking fashion.” Learn more.
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
