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COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTER ON THE WEB
The Copyright Clearance Center, which serves as a clearinghouse for
permission to reprint copyrighted materials, has set up business on the
Web, offering browsers an automated process for obtaining and paying for
reprint rights. The URL is <http://www.directory.net/copyright>.
Customers can asked to be billed or pay by credit card using Open Market
Inc.'s encrypted software. By July the Center hopes to offer an automated
Academic Permission Service for obtaining the rights to "course packs" --
anthologies that professors custom-design for their classes. (Chronicle of
Higher Education 4/21/95 A32)