24 March 2020
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) has announced its Education Continuity License to enable creative approaches to remote teaching and distance learning made necessary by the pandemic.
CCC is coordinating with its community of rights holders to authorise the use of their materials at no cost by educators as required by the pandemic during this time of emergency. CCC is not delivering educational materials or content to educators; it offers this new licence to authorise US school districts, educators, parents and others to make immediate additional uses of materials that they have previously lawfully acquired.
The authorisation will run until mid-summer 2020, at which time CCC will work with rights holders to assess whether an extension may be necessary.
CCC will not collect fees from any party and will administer this service for no cost. CCC has posted a form on its website so that educators can look up participating publishers and record their use of lawfully acquired copyrighted materials. More than 40 publishers have agreed to grant these rights at no cost through this licence.