Legal Experts to Explore Collective Licensing in the Age of AI During Live Online Event on February 10

CCC (Copyright Clearance Center) to Host Event Featuring Legal Experts Daniel Gervais and Erin Finlay, Who Will Discuss the Role of Copyright and Collective Management for Reducing Legal Uncertainty and Supporting a Balanced Marketplace

DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CCC (Copyright Clearance Center), a pioneer in voluntary collective licensing, will host the live online event, ‘Collective Management: Bridging Copyright History and the AI Future’ on February 10 at 11:00 am ET for legal and technology professionals, policy makers, creators and publishers, and other stakeholders in the copyright ecosystem. The event will be hosted on LinkedIn Live and feature Professor Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt University Law School, and Erin Finlay, Partner at Stohn Hay Cafazzo Heim Finlay LLP, as panelists.

Gervais and Finlay will join Catherine Zaller Rowland, CCC Vice President and General Counsel and former Associate Register of Copyrights at the U.S. Copyright Office, to discuss how collective licensing reduces legal uncertainty for businesses, ensures fair compensation for creators and other rights holders, and nourishes a balanced marketplace where creators, AI developers, and professional knowledge workers can all thrive.

Gervais currently serves as the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, where he is also director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program and co-director of the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program.

As a partner at Stohn Hay Cafazzo Heim Finlay LLP, Finlay practices in the areas of entertainment law, copyright, privacy, broadcast regulatory, and cultural policy. She provides a wide range of legal services and strategic direction to producers, artists, musicians, authors, publishers, trade associations, copyright collectives, and cultural businesses in the development, production, exploitation, and protection of film, television, publishing, music, and digital media projects.

“We are excited to bring together distinguished experts like Daniel Gervais and Erin Finlay to share their valuable perspectives on the importance of licensing, and collective licensing, in providing a powerful mechanism to make copyright work in the evolving field of AI,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, CCC. “I look forward to their discussion on what rightsholders and innovators can do today to prepare for tomorrow’s copyright landscape.”

CCC also hosted the online event, ‘Responsible AI in Practice: Navigating Risk, Governance, and Copyright’ in October 2025 for professionals in publishing, AI technology, and business. The online event featured Oliver Patel, who joined CCC Licensing and Legal Advisor Roanie Levy to discuss the legal, ethical, and commercial stakes of responsible AI development and highlight how copyright intersects with governance and compliance strategies.

CCC advocates for copyright worldwide by engaging governments, stakeholders, and individuals through educational programming and thought leadership resources, with an emphasis on AI, Copyright & Licensing. Since 1978, CCC has supported content users by providing efficient licensing solutions for their content use. CCC’s non-exclusive voluntary collective rights licensing solutions include ACL for Business, Multinational Copyright License (MCL) for Business, ACL for Higher Education, and ACL for Student Assessments. In addition to licensing solutions, CCC provides software solutions with integrated one-stop access for users to request, receive, and pay for full-text content and permissions to re-use content.

About CCC (Copyright Clearance Center)

A pioneer in voluntary collective licensing, CCC has been dedicated to advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation since its inception in 1978. Today, CCC supports a thriving knowledge economy as a trusted intermediary, providing licensing solutions that make copyright work, including collective licensing solutions for the use of copyrighted materials with AI systems. CCC also offers a portfolio of innovative and complementary software solutions, as well as high-quality content, data, and information services.