Copyright Clearance Center has once again partnered with The Frankfurt Book Fair to spotlight innovation in global publishing. For 2020, the longstanding partnership will shift from the famous Frankfurt messe to a digital commons accessible anywhere in the world.
Interview with Michael Healy, Conducted by Porter Anderson
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As the coronavirus pandemic maintains its grip on humanity, Frankfurt Book Fair must move online. Throughout this week, CCC looks forward to engaging in valuable virtual discussions with the Frankfurt global audience on key issues facing publishing – and to supporting fully the Book Fair’s 2020 motto – Signals of Hope: New Perspectives for a Stronger Future.
In this edition, CCC’s podcast welcomes Porter Anderson as our guest host. Porter is editor-in-chief of Publishing Perspectives. In 2019, he was named International Trade Press Journalist of the Year in London Book Fair’s International Excellence Awards.
Joining Porter Anderson is Michael Healy, CCC’s Executive Director, International Relations, to share how CCC and collective management organizations in many countries have stepped forward in the months since the COVID-19 pandemic first struck.
CCC and other RROs have worked closely with publishers and creators on a range of initiatives, particularly supporting students and teachers as educational institutions have closed or moved to virtual teaching models, Healy tells Anderson.
“When teaching and learning went entirely remote in so many countries, when institutions of education closed down their physical premises and so on, in many countries, the most immediate requirement was to extend the copying limits for schools and universities,” he explains.
“RROs in places like the United Kingdom, in Ireland, in Denmark, in Canada, all increased, usually on a temporary basis, the limits of what could be copied so that remote learning, distance learning, hybrid learning, whatever could continue relatively uninterruptedly.
“Some went even further, and they introduced some new licenses,” notes Healy. “For example, we at Copyright Clearance Center in the United States introduced in March this year what we called an Education Continuity License that ran for several months. We had a couple hundred participating publishers opting in. [The license] authorized teachers and students to use and reuse materials at no cost for their remote learning environments.”
