[Commons-l] Dream a little...
geni
geniice at gmail.com
Sun Oct 15 16:23:55 UTC 2006
On 10/15/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to gather from the community some examples of works you
> would like to see made free, works that we are not doing a good job of
> generating free replacements for, works that could in theory be
> purchased and freed.
>
> Dream big. Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase
> copyrights to be made available under a free license. What would you
> like to see purchased and released under a free license?
>
> Photos libraries? textbooks? newspaper archives? Be bold, be specific,
> be general, brainstorm, have fun with it.
>
Maps, satellite pics, everything produced by the ESA, chem abs, single
screenshots of as many films and TV shows as possible.
> I was recently asked this question by someone who is potentially in a
> position to make this happen, and he wanted to know what we need, what
> we dream of, that we can't accomplish on our own, or that we would
> expect to take a long time to accomplish on our own.
>
> --Jimbo
I would tend towards the position that the money would be better spent
on digitalising stuff that was already in the public domain.
--
geni
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