Re: CCC

Rosemary Tucci <rtucci[_at_]titan.liunet.edu> wrote:
>
> I am wondering if there are other organizations similar to CCC that
> operate in the U.S.? What is its international counterpart?

There are other licensing organizations for print, but they cover different markets:

  Authors Registry
  http://www.webcom.com/registry/

  Publication Rights Clearinghouse, National Writers Union   http://www.nwu.org/prc/prchome.htm

  Stanford Copy Analysis Mechanism
  http://www-db.stanford.edu/~shiva/SCAM/scamInfo.html

  WATCH
  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/HRC/WATCH/

Karsten M. Self <kmself[_at_]ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> Rosemary Tucci <rtucci[_at_]titan.liunet.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Is having a "middle-man" operation like this an effective way of
> > protecting copyright interests?
>
> CCC is less a means of protecting copyright interests (though this is
> a goal), than of facilitating a clearinghouse market.

Ditto for the others. They're not protection, per se, but their effect is to make it easier to license, thus making it less attractive to infringe.

• Mike Bradley National Writers Union <mike[_at_]sphinx.com>