Copyright Clearance Center Announces Settlement Reached in Kessler-Hancock Information Services, Inc. Copyright Infringement Suit.Business Editors DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2002 Publishers Elsevier Science B.V./Elsevier Science S.A. and John Wiley John Wiley may refer to:
infringement of copyright plagiarisation, plagiarization, piracy, plagiarism - the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. against document delivery service Kessler-Hancock Information Services See Information Systems. , Inc., of Davis, California Davis is a city in Yolo County, California, United States. As of the local census, the city had a total population of 64,821 (60,308 in 2000). Davis is well known in the state of California as being a socially and environmentally conscious university, bike, and railroad town, home . The claim was coordinated with 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 licenser of text reproduction rights. Kessler-Hancock has acknowledged past unauthorized copying, and has agreed that going forward it will regularly report photocopies reproduced from the publishers' text materials and promptly pay associated royalties by using CCC's Transactional Reporting Service. "This is a good settlement," said Mark Seeley, Elsevier's general counsel. "Kessler-Hancock's prior practices did not comport See COM port. with appropriate copyright compliance standards. We are pleased that it has now designed a revised set of procedures that will allow it to meet compliance needs for document delivery." Richard S. Rudick, Wiley's Senior Vice President and General Counsel, said, "This settlement reinforces our message that it is in all of our best interests--and that includes document delivery services and their customers as well as publishers--to adhere to established copyright compliance standards." "We're pleased with the result of this agreement," said Frederic Haber, CCC's general counsel. "Kessler-Hancock has acknowledged the obligation of content users to comply with U.S. copyright law and we expect that other organizations who do not yet comply will recognize the appropriateness of this agreement. Document delivery services such as Kessler-Hancock provide a valuable service for users of copyrighted material and this settlement will move Kessler-Hancock to the proper place in serving their customers. As always, CCC stands ready to assist Kessler-Hancock and other document deliverers in their copyright compliance activities." CCC facilitates the reproduction of copyrighted works by providing licenses and permissions to many document delivery services and other users of copyrighted materials. In exchange, copyright royalties are collected and then distributed to the appropriate publishers, authors, or other rightsholders. About Elsevier Science Elsevier Science B.V. and Elsevier Science S.A. are units of Elsevier Science (www.elsevier.com), headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company is the world's leading scientific, technical and medical information provider and publishes over 1,400 journals as well as books and secondary databases. It is a member of the Reed Elsevier plc group (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider. Reed Elsevier plc is owned equally by Reed International PLC (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : RUK RUK Reserviupseerikoulu (Hamina, Finland, Reserve Officers' School) RUK Are You Kidding? ) and Elsevier NV (NYSE: 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 ). About Wiley Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., provides must-have content and services to customers worldwide. Its core businesses include scientific, technical, and medical journals; encyclopedias, books, and online products and services; professional and consumer books and subscription services; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley has publishing, marketing, and distribution centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The company is listed on the 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. under the symbols JWa and JWb. Wiley's recently relaunched Internet site can be accessed at www.wiley.com. About CCC Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. is the world's largest licensing agent for text reproduction rights and the 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 can be found on the World Wide Web at www.copyright.com. |
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