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For Immediate Release: February 5, 2007
Contact: Suzanne Wu / 773-834-0386 / swu@press.uchicago.edu

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The University of Chicago Press selects Rightslink® for online copyright
permissions

The University of Chicago Press announced today that it has selected Copyright
Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), the world’s largest provider of copyright
licensing solutions, to streamline its online licensing and permissions
activities. CCC’s Rightslink® service will provide a more efficient, real-time
way for customers to secure permission to reuse copyrighted material published
by the University of Chicago Press, Journals Division, or on behalf of its
society partners.

The University of Chicago Press, Journals Division welcomes permissions and
licensing requests from individuals looking for reproduction rights,
republication requests from other publishers, and corporate customers that seek
to incorporate content from Chicago Journals in their sales and marketing
activities. Rightslink automates this business, allowing for point-of-sale
real-time approval for use of content and online payment directly from the
University of Chicago Press, Journals Division’s Web site,
www.journals.uchicago.edu.

“We are delighted about the ease-of-access and immediacy that Rightslink will
offer our customers, including an enhanced level of customer support,” said
Kate Duff, Licensing and Permissions Manager, University of Chicago Press,
Journals Division. “Rightslink is an important component in the Journal
Division’s plan to improve availability of our content online, by offering
customers a faster, more dependable way to comply with copyright law and share
vital information and knowledge.”

The University of Chicago Press joins a growing group of prestigious  publishers
that in recent months have selected Rightslink for online permissions or reprint
ordering, including Oxford University Press, Springer, Nature Publishing Group
and Blackwell Publishing.

“Rightslink’s rapid growth reflects its ease of use, ease of implementation and
overall success as an application that automates important, revenue generating
functions for publishers,” said Bob Weiner, Senior Vice President, CCC.  “And
content users seeking permissions and reprints are coming to expect Rightslink
as their interface.  We are delighted that the University of Chicago Press has
chosen Rightslink as what is very quickly becoming the standard for reprints
and permissions.”

About the University of Chicago Press: Founded in 1891, the University of
Chicago Press is the largest American university press. The Journals Division
currently publishes forty-seven award-winning periodicals and serials in a wide
range of disciplines, including several journals that were the first scholarly
publications in their respective fields. Online since 1995, the Journals
Division has also been a pioneer in electronic publishing, delivering original,
peer-reviewed research from international scholars to a worldwide audience.

About Copyright Clearance Center: Copyright Clearance Center is the world’s
largest provider of text licensing services. These services, combined with
CCC’s Web-based applications and tools, allow tens of millions of people in
corporations, universities, law firms and government agencies to lawfully use
and share published information with ease. Since its founding as a
not-for-profit company in 1978, CCC has created and expanded the markets and
systems that facilitate content reuse and the distribution of royalties to
publishers and authors around the world. By offering rights to millions of the
world’s most sought-after publications, the company plays a major role in the
global knowledge economy and encourages support for the principles of
copyright. For more information please visit www.copyright.com.

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