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• Growth in Enterprise AI Adoption is Driving Copyright Risk, According to New Study from CCC and Outsell

"CCC (Copyright Clearance Center) and Outsell, Inc. today released the 2026 Copyrighted Content Usage Trends Report, showing that the velocity of externally published content being shared within organizations keeps climbing, and that AI has changed the scale of the compliance risk to the enterprise.

"Externally published content now moves through two channels at once, passed between colleagues and fed into AI tools, and while senior executives tend to be most aware of licensing policies, they are also the most likely to share this content with AI without regard to established guidelines.

"Since 2007, CCC and Outsell have tracked how often professionals share externally published content, with how many people, and through which channels. The 2026 study builds on the AI questions first asked in 2025, mapping how externally published content enters AI workflows, how often the resulting outputs are shared, and with whom. ..."

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