- ICopyright
iCopyright, Inc. is a copyright licensing and content services company based in the
Seattle, Washington area and provides a copyright system for digital content. iCopyright works with publishers and independent creators to protect, promote, distribute and monetize their content from news and editorial articles to blogs and independent creative works. The technology of iCopyright instantly secures the rights to use and share content while maintainingcopyright compliance. iCopyright is used by thousands of global news organizations, trade publications and newspapers, such asReuters ,Associated Press ,Investors Business Daily , andThe Boston Globe , to sell reprints and grant permissions. [citebook|title=Teaching Legal Research and Providing Access to Electronic Resources|author=Gary L. Hill, Dennis S. Sears, Lovisa Lyman|year= 2001|publisher=Haworth Press |id=ISBN 0789013703] [cite web|url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/article_brief/eandp/1/1178061|title=iCOPYRIGHT.com IS BACK|publisher=Editor and Publisher |accessdate=2008-01-10|last=|first=]History
iCopyright, named to convey Intelligent Copyright, was founded in 1998 by Michel Jackson and has become the world's first automated copyright licensing system for digital content. In 1997, O'Donnell came up with the original idea of an automated copyright licensing system to tag articles so that a user could purchase a license within 30 seconds. Some licenses would be free, others would have a fee, and educational discounts would be available. O'Donnell developed the iCopyright symbol that has been trademarked in 30 countries. This symbol appears on Internet article sites and, when clicked, directs the user to the copyright information. This includes information about who owns the copyright and what one can and cannot do with the article. In 1998, the pilot was developed out of Design Intelligence, and in 1999, the first version of the iCopyright site was launched. The
LA Times became the first to use the service on the 2 million pages of current and archived content that they supported (which averaged about 300 articles a day at the time). The company has filed sevenpatents in the field of automated permissions and copyright licensing. [cite web |url=http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=icopyright11&date=20010411&query=Renton|title=Dot-com founder returns as CEO|publisher=Seattle Times |accessdate=2008-01-11|last=|first=] [cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE1DE123DF93BA25750C0A9679C8B63|title=No Pink Slip. You're Just Dot-Gone. - New York Times
publisher=New York Times |accessdate=2008-01-11|last=|first=]References
External links
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