Introduction

Tracey Armstrong is the President and CEO of the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), an organization that was founded in 1978 to offer voluntary blanket licenses to content in response to the spread of photocopiers – the disruptive technology of the time. Ms. Armstrong discusses CCC’s experience in organizing and managing licenses to large bodies of content, which offers lessons that can be applied to the emerging potential needs for large-scale content licensing for AI uses.

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