[Commons-l] Dream a little...

Sun Oct 15 16:45:01 UTC 2006

On Oct 15, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Jimmy Wales 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.
>
> 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
> _______________________________________________

Would use it to do a licensing deal with big image/content houses  
like AP or CORBIS.  That sum of money would talk to both of those  
organizations.

--Guy
(En Hiatus User:Wgfinley)