[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

Mon Oct 16 20:40:53 UTC 2006

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> The point is: suppose someone wanted to buy $100,000,000 of existing 
> copyrighted material and set it free.  What should it be?
>   
In other words, Goo^H^H^Hthis unnamed company wants to do something 
useful that could also be a $100M tax writeoff...

It would be interesting for this company to approach the different news 
agencies and ask them to bid on a package of free images that would be 
comprehensive coverage for people and events 1923-2003 or so. They 
wouldn't necessarily want to free up their best images, the ones that 
make them money on a daily basis, but there would be a lot left over. We 
could even help by collecting un-illustrated articles and ones with 
unfree images, and making up a big wantlist that they could match 
against their stock.

Stan