[Commons-l] Dream a little...

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Sun Oct 15 17:51:51 UTC 2006


Guy, please just try to avoid Geni's trolling.  I know it is hard, but 
sometimes it is necessary in order to get anything done. :)

W. Guy Finley wrote:
> Ahhh, i'm remembering why I'm on hiatus.  Dream a little........so  
> someone can come and piss on it.
> 
> I think if you go to AP or CORBIS with a hundred mill and say "hey,  
> we want to work out a bulk licensing deal for copyright permissions"  
> I'm certain something would get done.  Would it be every single thing  
> they do with unlimited rights?  No.  Wold it be an enormous chunk of  
> images we could sorely use?  Most definitely.
> 
> --Guy
> 
> 
> On Oct 15, 2006, at 11:55 AM, geni wrote:
> 
>> On 10/15/06, W. Guy Finley <wgfinley at dynascope.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Since you would to buy them outright I doubt it.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> geni
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