----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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)