On 10/16/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Till Westermayer wrote:
On the "dream" thread: putting
100.000.000 $ as stock in a foundation
will result in 1.000.000 $ or something per year to spend -- why not
use it that way?
Well the point is not an unrestricted gift, though that is fun to think
about too. The point is not political lobbying, though that is fun to
think about too. :-)
The point is: suppose someone wanted to buy $100,000,000 of existing
copyrighted material and set it free. What should it be?
geographical data and/or images
(spring to mind, several copyrighted buildings, other works of art,
people not all countries have pd for their government produces works
:( (and not all ppl get to meet the US president to produce pd photos)
henna
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