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Copyright Clearance Center adds blogs to licensing programs: updates on the information professional and SLA.


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.  has expanded its licensing services to include rights to more than 1,000 popular blogs.

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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.
 is making rights to blog blog, short for web log, an online, regularly updated journal or newsletter that is readily accessible to the general public by virtue of being posted on a website.  content available through an agreement with Newstex, a news and information aggregator. Newstex delivers real-time news and commentary from thousands of newswires, newspapers, magazines, financial and business sources, official government feeds, and blogs.

The addition of blogs, including hundreds that focus on business, technology, finance, healthcare, the law, and other topics, makes them available for CCC clients to share within their enterprises. For others uses, including academic uses, rights can be secured via CCC's pay-per-use services on an as-needed basis. For bloggers, the new licensing capability increases the potential of realizing royalty income for the use of their work.
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Title Annotation:INFO NEWS
Publication:Information Outlook
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1U1MA
Date:Dec 1, 2007
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