SAA Comments on Copyright Office’s Mass Digitization Pilot Program

“For the vast bulk of what is in archives, mostly unpublished or rare materials where copyright claimants do not exist, ECL [extended collective licensing] would be unhelpful, irrelevant, unduly burdensome, and a disservice to the communities that archives serve.” Read SAA President Dennis Meissner’s September 23 letter to the Register of Copyrights (drafted by the Intellectual Property Working Group) here.