CCC: The Right Idea Not Yet Mature
The Copyright Clearance Center’s new blanket license for Universities is a great idea, as I’ve said before.
California State University at Northridge (CSUN) has declined to use the license, explaining that only about a third of the publishers it currently pays fees to are represented by CCC. Read the story here.
The CCC seems to have a fair amount of clout, judging from the number of publishers and writers it has already signed on to its service. Now if it can only hang on long enough to get a majority of publishers and a better system for locating specific types of material, it could become a huge piece of usefulness in the future.

December 18th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
[...] the new tools are a some applications the Copyright Clearance Center is playing around with. I haven’t had a chance to do more yet than just take a look, so no [...]