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Copyright Clearance Center's Rightsphere Selected as a 2006 MITX Awards Finalist.


Rightsphere Recognized as One of New England's Best

DANVERS, Mass. -- Copyright Clearance Center Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a not-for-profit U.S. company based in Danvers, Massachusetts, that provides collective copyright licensing services for corporate and academic users of copyrighted materials.  (CCC CCC

A very speculative grade assigned to a debt obligation by a rating agency. Such a rating indicates default or considerable doubt that interest will be paid or principal repaid. Also called Caa.
), the world's largest copyright licensing solutions provider, today announced that its Rightsphere rights advisory and management service has been selected as a finalist in the Applied Technology category for the 11th Annual MITX MITX Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange  Awards. Held annually by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, the MITX Awards recognize excellence in the creation of interactive technologies designed, produced or developed in New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. .

Begun in 1996, the MITX Awards have grown to become the largest and most prestigious awards competition in the country for technology innovations and celebrates the best creative and technological accomplishments emerging from New England.

"We saw a tremendous increase in entries this year, a very solid testament that technological and creative innovation is thriving in New England," said Kiki Mills, Executive Director of MITX. "Our awards finalists continue to raise the bar and we are very proud to provide the platform to bring these innovations to the public's attention."

Rightsphere is a revolutionary Web-based rights advisory and management service that helps corporations promote collaboration and the free flow of published information while also respecting copyright. The first-of-its-kind service debuted in June 2006 and is a major advance for companies that place high value on knowledge sharing and innovation. Rightsphere provides a customized, comprehensive view of all rights assets held by a business and delivers instant answers to each employee's desktop for the common question: "What am I allowed to do with this content?"

"Rightsphere is an important milestone toward broad-based respect for copyright and intellectual property because it incorporates copyright compliance into the workflow of how companies and employees share published materials," said Tracey Armstrong, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO)

The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president.
 of CCC. "We are honored and proud that MITX has recognized the value and innovation of Rightsphere by choosing it as an awards finalist."

CCC will be recognized with the other finalists in the category of Applied Technology at a gala awards ceremony traditionally attended by over 900 of the region's top interactive technology and business professionals. Winners will be announced at the ceremony in the Boston Marriott Copley Place Copley Place is an enclosed shopping mall located in the Back Bay section of Boston, Massachusetts. It is part of a complex that includes office buildings, two hotels, and a parking garage.  on Wednesday, November 8th. Tickets can be purchased at www.mitxawards.org.

The 2006 MITX Awards program is sponsored by 24/7 Media, Adobe, Backbone Media, Doubleclick, Eyewonder, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Miller Systems, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
 and media partner Technology Review.

About Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.

Copyright Clearance Center is the world's largest provider of text licensing services. These services, combined with CCC's Web-based applications See Web application.  and tools, allow tens of millions of people in corporations, universities, law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
  1. Clifford Chance, £1,030.2m – International law firm (headquartered in the UK);
  2. Linklaters, £935.
 and government agencies to lawfully use and share published information with ease. Since its founding as a not-for-profit company in 1978, CCC has created and expanded the markets and systems that facilitate content reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity.  and the distribution of royalties to publishers and authors around the world. By offering rights to millions of the world's most sought-after publications, the company plays a major role in the global knowledge economy and encourages support for the principles of copyright. For more information please visit www.copyright.com.

About MITX

Established in 1996, MITXCothe Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX: "my-techs") is the industry and professional organization where technology, marketing and digital media intersect In a relational database, to match two files and produce a third file with records that are common in both. For example, intersecting an American file and a programmer file would yield American programmers. . Reaching more than 6,000 professionals in New England, MITX is a dynamic and growing community for thought leadership, building business relationships and professional training and development. Members of the MITX community take advantage of events, sponsorships, speaking opportunities and networking to make meaningful business connections and exchange innovative leadership, management and technical ideas. With more than 60 events each year, MITX provides its members with the opportunity to promote their companies to targeted audiences. MITX events also provide a valuable forum for networking to source potential business leads, partnerships, ideas, funding and other likeminded peers in the industry. MITX is headquartered in Cambridge. For more information please go to www.mitx.org
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