CCC launches AI systems training license
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) has announced that a AI Systems Training License will be made available later in the 2025 calendar year to both existing and prospective CCC customers, including AI systems providers and organisations developing AI-powered applications.
This voluntary, non-exclusive collective license is designed to aid organisations that want to comply with copyright laws for the use of third-party content to train AI systems as well as the external use and certain outputs from trained models.
In January, CCC warned that the need to raise awareness of copyright compliance and AI tools is more important than ever to avoid risks like copyright infringement.
As a complement to direct licensing deals with rights holders or as a standalone solution, CCC’s AI Systems Training License is aimed at simplifying how organisations can legally obtain a consistent set of rights across works in publishing sectors such as science, technology, medicine, humanities, business, news and media.
CCC also recently announced the availability of AI rights for internal corporate use within its Annual Copyright License (ACL), an enterprise-wide content licensing solution offering companies an efficient way to obtain rights to use copyrighted materials within AI systems. The license provides users with a harmonised set of internal use AI rights from a broad range of rights holders.
“Copyrighted materials are the fuel for AI systems, and voluntary, non-exclusive collective licensing provides a market-based solution that is efficient and effective,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, CCC.
“Companies recognise and respect the value of high-quality content, and they want to use it in a compliant way. There is no single legal standard to address the use of content in AI systems country-by-country, making licensing even more important. CCC’s licenses also help to level the playing field, helping enable more users and rights holders to compete.”
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