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 == Charles M. Roslof Intellectual Property & Internet Law Fellow Wikimedia Foundation croslof(a)wikimedia.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','croslof@wikimedia.org');> (415) 839-6885 NOTICE: *This message might contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this message by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. For legal reasons, I may only serve as a legal fellow for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal* *capacity.* For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.