DANVERS, Mass., Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CCC (Copyright Clearance Center), a pioneer in voluntary collective licensing, will host the panel, “Publisher Strategies for Navigating the AI Value Chain,” during the Frankfurt Book Fair on 7 October at 14:00 – 15:00 pm CEST at the Dialogue Stage, Foyer of Hall 4.

Panelists include Caroline Sutton, Chief Executive Officer, International Association for Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM); Chris Reid, Senior Director of Product Management, Wiley; and Mehmet Toral, Chief Corporate Officer & General Counsel, Frontiers. Roy Kaufman, Managing Director, Business Development and Government Relations at CCC, will moderate the panel.

“As AI-generated answers, assistants, and agents reshape information discovery and content consumption, publishers face questions around value creation and capture as market demand shifts toward scalable licensing and repeatable permissions frameworks for AI,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, CCC. “I look forward to our panelist discussion on how responsible AI scales with licensing.”

Additionally, Kaufman will be a featured speaker at The Scholarly Kitchen Live about Licensing and Infrastructure on 8 October, 09:55 – 11:00 am CEST in Hall 4.1 on the Innovation Stage. Kaufman’s talk during Session 2, “Licensing as the Key,” will focus on how licensing is the foundation for everything from sustainability to integrity, and how both the market and the law are raising critical issues around AI’s future.

Last week, CCC released the results of its 2026 Copyrighted Content Usage Trends Report, which tracks how often professionals share externally published content, with how many people, and through which channels. The findings showed that AI is fundamentally changing the scale of copyright compliance and risk inside the enterprise.

CCC also recently announced the availability of funder data within Ringgold Organizations, the leading persistent identifier (PID) solution for organization data used by 80 publishers, service providers, and funders. By adding more than 21,000 funder records, including a new unique and persistent Ringgold Funder ID, funder hierarchies, and additional funder metadata, Ringgold Organizations now offers customers the ability to reduce manual reconciliation with standardized, high-quality funder records; integrate more accurate funder data to improve publishing workflows, and unlock insights into the funding landscape to identify risks and uncover new opportunities.

Ringgold is one of the solutions comprising the CCC Scholarly Communications Suite along with RightsLink for Scientific Communications, OA Intelligence, and RightsLink Author Services. Together, the suite of solutions helps scholarly journal publishers normalize and disambiguate data, enrich datasets, accelerate deal modeling, reliably manage article publishing charges (APCs) and Open Access (OA) agreements, and diversify their portfolio amidst the rapidly changing publishing landscape.

Last year at the Frankfurt Book Fair, CCC featured its AI Systems Training License, a voluntary, non-exclusive collective license for training AI systems. The license provides the rights to lawfully use a wide and diverse repertoire of content for training AI systems for external use. It reduces the complexity and burden of ad hoc negotiations and offers standard terms of use. This streamlined solution supports responsible AI development and compliant use of copyrighted materials.

CCC advocates for copyright worldwide by engaging governments, stakeholders, and individuals through educational programming and resources from copyright organizations, with an emphasis on AI, Copyright & Licensing. CCC’s non-exclusive voluntary collective rights licensing solutions include ACL for Business, Multinational Copyright License (MCL) for Business, ACL for Higher Education, AI Systems Training License, and ACL for Student Assessments. In addition to licensing solutions, CCC provides software solutions with integrated, one-stop access for users to request, receive, and pay for full-text content and permission to reuse content.

For more information, please visit the CCC stand at the 2026 Frankfurt Book Fair, located in Hall 4.1, E24.

About CCC (Copyright Clearance Center)
A pioneer in voluntary collective licensing, CCC has been dedicated to advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation since its inception in 1978. Today, CCC supports a thriving knowledge economy as a trusted intermediary, providing licensing solutions that make copyright work, including collective licensing solutions for the use of copyrighted materials with AI systems. CCC also offers a portfolio of innovative and complementary software solutions, as well as high-quality content, data, and information services.

For more information, please contact:
Craig Sender
Senior Director, Public and Analyst Relations
csender@copyright.com
+1 (917) 626-7152


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