Hello Everyone,

I created some social messaging for a story Michael found about quantifying the public domain in monetary terms. URL:

http://phys.org/news/2015-04-absence-copyright-economic-social-benefits.html

Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed.

Tweet structure:

Account: @wikipedia

A new paper co-written by Kristofer Erickson and Martin Kretschmer attempts to quantify a portion of the #publicdomain in monetary terms.

Kristofer Erickson and Martin Kretschmer quantified the #publicdomain images on Wikipedia into monetary terms.

“The total value of #publicdomain photographs on Wikipedia is between $246 million to $270 million per year.”

FB/G+ structure:

Account: wikipedia

“A new study co-written by a University of Illinois expert in intellectual property law demonstrates that the value of creative works in the public domain such as books, images and music can be estimated at least as precisely as the value of commercially available copyrighted works.”

“The absence of copyright creates value, and creative industries rely on public domain works as building blocks for many valuable new creations."

“To put a monetary value on how much creative works in the public domain contribute to the creation of new works, the authors used Wikipedia pages as an example of new authors creating new works that rely on the public domain in the authorship process.”

"We studied the biographical Wikipedia pages of a large data set of authors, composers and lyricists to determine whether the public domain status of available images leads to a higher rate of inclusion of illustrated supplementary material.”

Thanks,