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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
iCopyright Surpasses One Million
Instant Licenses in 2008
Number of daily licenses double to more
than 10,000
SEATTLE, Washington, October 22, 2008—iCopyright announced today
that its automated content licensing system has transacted more
than one million instant licenses year-to-date. The one
millionth license was transacted on Thursday, October 9th at
11:03am CDT. The license was for five ad-supported photocopies
of an article from Chromatography Today, a publication of
Advanstar Communications.
“The death of copyright in the digital age has been greatly
exaggerated,” said Mike O’Donnell, Founder & CEO of iCopyright.
“One million instant licenses within a single year is a world
record. The number of daily licenses obtained by Internet users
doubled from 5,000 to more than 10,000 in just 9 months. What we
have witnessed in the last few years is a dramatic increase in
voluntary compliance. This milestone shows that people will
respect a publisher’s copyrights if the permissions process is
instantaneous. The days of publishers handling copyright
permissions manually, or on an ad hoc basis, are over.”
Online users obtain free permissions and fee-based licenses by
clicking on iCopyright’s Email, Print, Save, Post, and License
links located on publisher websites. iCopyright transacts the
license and delivers the content instantly in the format desired
by the user. The system also tracks the downstream distribution
of the licensed content so that recipients can verify that the
sender has a valid license to be using and sharing the content.
The iCopyright service also enables viral marketing and
distribution, since every recipient of a licensed article or
photo is invited to obtain additional rights to use and share
the content.
“iCopyright has done for information content what iTunes did for
music,” O’Donnell added.
About iCopyright®
iCopyright (www.icopyright.com) is the intelligent copyright
system for digital content. The Codie-Award winning service
enables users to obtain reprints, rights and permissions from
thousands of online publications, as well as from individual
creators. iCopyright also offers Discovery™, a content
monitoring and infringement detection 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).
Media Inquiries to iCopyright: Mike O’Donnell, CEO;
+1-206-484-8561;
mike@iCopyright.com.
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