Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) customers often tell us about effective steps they’ve taken to educate their employees about copyright. Here are just some of those helpful tips.

1. Add copyright to employee training. Start new employees on the right track by incorporating information about your compliance policy, guidelines and licensing coverage right into your training materials.

2. Lunch and learn. Host an educational lunch for employees and invite your corporate attorney to present an overview on copyright and any licensing systems you’ve set up to allow them to copy and distribute published content lawfully.

3. Train administrative staff. Often administrative employees are asked to photocopy and distribute information or forward content via e-mail. Help them help others by teaching them about what your licensing coverage allows them to do, and how to secure additional rights when needed.

4. Link to title search. If you have an annual license from CCC, your employees may need to search our catalog to check for coverage of a particular journal, newspaper or other work. Make it easy for them to do so by posting a link from your intranet site or by sending them to our title search page.

5. Enroll in free online seminars. If you need help training employees on the right ways to use and share copyrighted content, we can help. Encourage managers to participate in one of CCC’s free online seminars. To request notice of future trainings, contact us.

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