Hi all,

Earlier this year, the U.S. Copyright Office proposed 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-Digitization-Comments.pdf

And you can help spread the message by following @wikimediapolicy on Twitter and retweeting us:

https://twitter.com/wikimediapolicy/status/652609998573297664

Thanks,