Copyright Clearance Center Adds Elsevier to Its Digital Licensing Offerings.Business Editors DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2004 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. Adds World's Largest Scientific, Technical and Medical Publisher to Growing Digital Repertory Copyright Clearance Center, the premier copyright licensing and compliance company for the information content industry, today announced that Elsevier, the world's largest science, technology and medical publisher, has included its works for licensing within Copyright Clearance Center's extensive digital repertory. This new agreement gives Copyright Clearance Center's corporate digital repertory customers permission to distribute internally in digital formats valuable content from over 37,000 Elsevier titles. "Year over year, Copyright Clearance Center has demonstrated its ability to effectively license our content in the photocopy market," said Karen Hunter, senior vice president, strategy, Elsevier. "The company's digital repertory offers corporate content users an easy way to lawfully share content electronically from our books and journals within their organization." Knowledge workers, researchers and other content users increasingly use copyrighted material in digital formats. Copyright Clearance Center's digital licensing services help copyright holders capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. this growing preference for reusing and sharing information in digital formats, while protecting their intellectual property assets. "Copyright Clearance Center helps publishers reach new markets and increase their royalty revenues," said Edward W. Colleran, director, publisher relations, Copyright Clearance Center. "Our digital repertory program provides Elsevier and all publishers with an effective way to further maximize the value of their content assets while responding to the growing demand for digital permissions." Other key publishers recently joining Copyright Clearance Center's digital repertory include Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, an international publisher of professional and medical information, and CCH CCH Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades (Spanish) CCH Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist CCH Cook County Hospital CCH Certified in Classical Homeopathy CCH Country Club Hills (Fairfax City, VA, USA) Inc., a provider of information services See Information Systems. for tax, accounting, legal and business professionals. Content users seeking to reuse copyrighted text materials in print and electronic formats from Copyright Clearance Center's extensive repertory can learn more online at copyright.com. About Elsevier Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, the company publishes more than 1,800 journals and 2,200 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect(R) (www.sciencedirect.com) and MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com/) bibliographic databases For computer programs to manage an individual's bibliographic references, see Reference management software A bibliographic or library database is a database of bibliographic information. , online reference works and subject specific portals. Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) is a global company headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors are REN ren or jen In Confucianism, the most basic of all virtues, variously translated as “humaneness” or “benevolence.” It originally denoted the kindness of rulers to subjects. (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. ), RUK RUK Reserviupseerikoulu (Hamina, Finland, Reserve Officers' School) RUK Are You Kidding? and ENL Noun 1. ENL - an inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face erythema nodosum leprosum Hansen's disease, leprosy - chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical (New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. ). About Copyright Clearance Center Copyright Clearance Center is the world's largest licensing agent for text reproduction rights and provider of licensing services for reproducing copyrighted materials in print and electronic formats. A not-for-profit organization founded in 1978, Copyright Clearance Center provides rights management for more than 1.75 million works represented by more than 9,600 publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creators, either directly or through their representatives. In addition, the company provides more than 10,000 corporations and subsidiaries (including most of the Fortune 100), as well as thousands of government agencies, 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]
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