iCopyright provides an instant licensing and billing service for corporate users, including educational and institutional users of digital content. Corporate account users can have their licensing purchases automatically billed to a corporate account, using the “Bill my Company” option that appears within the iCopyright licensing links located on thousands of publisher websites.
Corporate account administrators have access to their own corporate account console where they can track purchases by employee and by department, set spending limits, and monitor licenses purchased through the system. The enterprise will receive a monthly invoice for all content licensed by its employees.
Corporate account users are frequent consumers of news and B2B publishers, They have both the need and budgets for reprints and licensed content. And they also have the corporate ethic—and mandate—to be copyright compliant. This service makes it easier for organization employees to get the content they want, when they want it, and provide a means to track the licenses that have been purchased and to pay for those purchases on the organization’s established billing cycles.
Similarly, corporate users are more likely to make regular and repeat purchases when they can simply log in and charge their purchases to a corporate account established by the organization or corporation. Enterprise users don’t even have to know whether their company has an enterprise account, all they have to do is log in with their company email address and we’ll notify them whether their company has an account.
Corporate Account – How It Works
The Corporate Account Console enables companies to maintain a corporate “charge account” and control which employees may purchase licenses, and charge the licensing fee to that account, subject to a pre-approved budget. The console stores a record of all licenses purchased by the company, as well as a back-up copy of all content purchased. Employees can also charge content licenses to specific expense codes, such as purchases made for marketing or for a company client. Companies are invoiced monthly for all licenses purchased by their employees during the month, rather than having to pay for each license on an ‘as occurs’ basis, and avoiding the need for employees to use their personal credit cards and file expense reports for content purchases. The console also provides companies with comprehensive reports on content usage and licenses purchased by each employee.
Corporate account administrators can choose payment by credit card or check when they set up an account, or choose PayPal™ as a payment option at the time of purchase.
Corporate Account Benefits
- Enables your employees to instantly license content from thousands of news and B2B sites. All they have to do is click on the iCopyright or License link that appears at the top or bottom of the article, then click “Bill My Company” to get the content on credit. Your organization is billed monthly.
- Provides your organization with iCopyright’s Permissions Request Service. Use it to request permission to use any content on the web that is not using the iCopyright Instant Licensing Service. iCopyright’s staff will do their best to secure permission from the copyright holder.
- Track your corporate IP (documents, whitepapers, press releases) and search for trademark infringement of your company and product logos on the web.
- Mitigate risk of copyright infringement, track all licenses obtained by your employees.
Corporate accounts can be set up free-of-charge at: http://license.icopyright.net/corp/createCorporation.act
