[Commons-l] Dream a little...

Sun Oct 15 20:53:35 UTC 2006

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

Surfing on the long tail :-)

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