Two new instant licensing services that help online publishers promote lawful reuses of their copyrighted content while protecting their rights have been launched by iCopyright. These services are responsive to the explosive growth in blogging and social networking, where sharing valued content is appealing to readers but often vexing to the original publishers.

Web sites and intranets that wish to directly host authorized versions of a publisher's content will embrace instant PDF E-Prints are a unique innovation. A crisp rendering of the original article in a standard PDF file that can be posted on a site for a defined period is instantly obtained by the licensee. According to the duration of the posting, licensees pay a modest fee to the publisher for the rights. To renew or remove the file when the license term expires, iCopyright monitors the site and automatically prompts the licensee.    

For permitting reuse of content, the new Instant Web Post licensing service gives publishers two options, by duration in months and by page view counts. Publishers can enable either of these options individually or give users a choice between the two. The original content, in either case, is rendered in html and hosted by iCopyright so that the content can be secured and monitored for compliance.

Allowing users to copy or share desirable articles quickly and easily while protecting and tracking a publisher's proprietary content on the World Wide Web, iCopyright solves a problem that is common among online publishers. iCopyright, without erecting barriers to content, makes it easy for consumers of content to be respectful of copyrights and publishers to profit from their copyrights when users wish to share content with others. Publishers using iCopyright include Associated Press, Advanstar, Boston Globe, Globe & Mail, Cygnus Business Media, Investors Business Daily, Penton Media, and hundreds more.