Charles,
The work on mass digitization is very important. Thank you.
Given https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared does the Foundation have a plan to oppose the TPP in the Senate?
Can you tell me why my requests to oppose the TPP by joining other organizations' efforts were not acted on, please?
Do you agree that public policy advocacy actions should be evaluated by and weighted by the extent to which they support the Foundation's mission in proportion to utilitarian measures of community support?
On Friday, October 9, 2015, Charles M. Roslof croslof@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
Earlier this year, the U.S. Copyright Office proposed http://copyright.gov/policy/massdigitization/ a pilot program for extended collective licensing of mass digitization projects. Today, we submitted our comments to the Office. We criticized the pilot program for its misguided conception of mass digitization and the limitations it proposed for digital collections. We think these faults make the pilot program bad for free knowledge, and we urge the Copyright Office not to implement it as it is currently proposed.
You can read more about the comments in this blog post:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/09/access-mass-digitization/
You can read the comments here:
https://policy.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WMF-Mass-Digitizatio...
And you can help spread the message by following @wikimediapolicy https://twitter.com/wikimediapolicy on Twitter and retweeting us:
https://twitter.com/wikimediapolicy/status/652609998573297664
Thanks, Yana & Chuck
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