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-Digitizati…
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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Charles M. Roslof
Intellectual Property & Internet Law Fellow
Wikimedia Foundation
croslof(a)wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885
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