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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Independent Offers iCopyright’s Instant
Licensing
and Permissions Services for its Web Content
National Newspaper is First UK Daily to Deploy Intelligent Copyright Licensing Services in Affiliation with The Reprint & Licensing Centre
SEATTLE and LONDON, October 14, 2008 -- The
Independent, a leading national daily newspaper serving the
United Kingdom, has deployed a suite of iCopyright’s content
licensing tools on its World Wide Web content at
www.independent.co.uk. This implementation marks the first time
iCopyright’s familiar licensing tools have been deployed by a
major media property outside North America and the first such
agreement to be executed by iCopyright’s UK partner, The Reprint
& Licensing Centre. iCopyright processed more than 4,000 instant
licenses and ad-supported permissions for The Independent on the
first day of operation - a record.
Announcing this new milestone, iCopyright founder and CEO Mike
O’Donnell said, “Our technology was built to be the
best-in-class solution for publishers worldwide to promote,
protect, and monetize their digital content, so we are
especially pleased to welcome The Independent into our network.
The Reprint & Licensing Centre, our partner in the UK, was
instrumental in bringing iCopyright’s technology and The
Independent’s content together.” O’Donnell added, “We look
forward to working with other publishers in the UK, Europe, and
beyond.”
“We are pleased to be the leader among UK newspaper publishers
in adopting the intelligent copyright tags provided by
iCopyright via The Reprint & Licensing Centre,” said Bill
Swanson, Managing Director of www.independent.co.uk. “We know
that our editorial content is highly valued by our readers
worldwide, and we encourage them to share and reuse our content
with attribution and in accordance with copyright law.
iCopyright will make it much easier for our content to reach a
far-flung audience without losing its identity and compromising
our rights.”
About The Independent:
The Independent, a leading national daily
newspaper in the United Kingdom, is owned by Independent News &
Media PLC (INM), which publishes more than 200 newspapers and
magazines on four continents, 10 major markets, and 22 nations.
About iCopyright®
iCopyright (www.icopyright.com) is the intelligent copyright
system for digital content. The Codie-Award winning service
handles more than a million instant licenses every year. In
addition to offering users convenient tools to license content,
iCopyright offers Discovery™, a copyright monitoring service for
publishers that locates copies of content posted anywhere on the
World Wide Web and automates the recovery and remedy of
infringed content. iCopyright also markets Clip&Copy®, the media
monitoring service that pushes iCopyright-tagged content to
subscribers daily (www.clipandcopy.com).
About The Reprint and Licensing Centre
The Reprint & Licensing
Centre (www.rl-centre.com), a unit of Media Revenue Service
Ltd., offers a full range of customized reprints, e-prints, and
licenses for major media properties in the U.K. and is
iCopyright’s partner in the territory.
Media Inquiries to iCopyright: Mike O’Donnell, CEO;
+1-206-484-8561; mike@iCopyright.com.
Media Inquiries to The Independent: Bill Swanson, Managing
Director (Digital); +44 207 005 2000}
Media Inquiries to The Reprint & Licensing Centre: Tom Hickman,
Managing Director; +44-203-217-1038.
iCopyright and Clip&Copy are trademarks of iCopyright, Inc. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
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