Digital permissions and reprint system to be fronted by Winnipeg firm

Tirage Reprints, a company out of Winnipeg, has cut a deal with online content licensing service iCopyright to manage copyright permissions, sell reprints, and offer other content services to magazine readers. iCopyright, a company founded in 1998 and based in Seattle, Washington, markets a system designed to make it easy for readers to comply with copyright requirements and easy for magazines to collect fees for their compyrighted material. It has seven patents pending in the field of automatic licensing and permissions.

"The nature of digital content demands a world-wide copyright preservation, monitoring and licensing solution," said Mike O'Donnell, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iCopyright. "Content on the Internet can not be controlled by borders or legislated by national laws. What is needed is a copyright system that works for all content, in all countries and all languages, for both publishers and users." iCopyright also made a similar deal in Great Britain with Media Revenue Services.

"We are very excited to be partnering with iCopyright to bring their services to the publishing industry in Canada," said Justin Schiele, Vice President of Tirage Reprints. "iCopyright is a perfect fit with our reprint business. We recently met with a number of leading newspaper and magazine publishers in Canada and received an enthusiastic response. We will be announcing shortly contracts with publishers who have agreed to use iCopyright and our reprint services."

Tirage Reprints says it is Canada's largest full-service reprint marketing firm and provides reprint and eprint marketing, print production and copyright permission services to magazine and other periodical publishers.