The obvious choice from a cultural standpoint is sheet music. Today's
composers are faced with an unfriendly market which limits their ability to
express themselves freely, and the few contemporary composers who have made
it into the pantheon are little-played by young musicians because the scores
are so expensive and difficult to obtain. A compendium of sheet music
covering the 20th and 21st centuries is sorely needed.
-Jeffrey Jones
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Somebody found that Naver News, the biggest news portal in Korea,
provides news articles with a link to the related article on Korean
Wikipedia:
http://news.naver.com/news/read.php?mode=LSD&office_id=052&article_id=00001…
(Scroll down - it's about on the two third of the page. The news is
about the North Koreans celebrating 80th anniversary of the
establishment of [[Down-With-Imperialism Union]].)
If I had $100 mil to work with, or even a tenth of that, I'd want to set up
a framework for coordinating current digitization, archiving and online
content distribution projects. Such an organization could provide
digitization support and expertise, hosting support, and lobbying and legal
support for free licenses and free content. This organization could have as
clients everyone from the Internet Archive to a random university library
that has a collection of papers they're digitizing to the free Darwin
project to... whatever. Like CNI ( http://www.cni.org/) the organization
could help make connections between partners, but on a much larger scale.
I've done research into what digital libraries and collections of free
content exist, and it's truly unbelievable how many startup digitization and
content-freeing projects there are out there, many of which are struggling
for lack of money, manpower and expertise. Only by working with the people
who have local expertise in what content is available where -- the
librarians, archivists, copyright holders and government agencies of the
world -- will these corners of excellent content be unearthed and made
available to everyone.
Even huge digitization projects are plagued by the fact that they're often
fighting a losing battle. For instance, the U.S. government has an ongoing
project to archive online materials produced by government agencies, but
still hundreds of thousands of documents a year go offline, disappear and
are lost forever, mostly not through malice but through an inability to keep
up. Project Gutenburg has been going on for years and there are still
thousands of works that could be included. These projects, and more
importantly much smaller and unknown ones besides, could do with support and
help coordinating volunteer hours to expand the scope of current
preservation efforts. Wikimedia, through providing the right framework, has
achieved the seemingly impossible in five short years -- the world's largest
reference work, plus a cultural movement to boot. Think about what
developing an equally appropriate framework for content freeing and
distribution efforts could do.
-- phoebe
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On 10/15/06, Jimmy Wales < jwales(a)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.
>
> 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
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Compared to the most dreams before, I guess I am quite modest:
I would love to buy the rights of pictures (and maybe add a few
signature-tunes ;) ) of all the important pre-war blues-musicians. Of
many of these artists only a single or two photographs are known and
they are mostly in the hand of collectors, who hold the copyright too.
As the pictures are almost always anonymously made in the 1920's and
1930's, we are not able to illustrate the concerning articles before
2020-2040. This does not only affect the artist-articles, but those on
the genre too. Just have a look o the commons-gallery. It is so sad,
that the origin of most western popular musical genres needs to be
almost text-only still for decades ....
Regards,
Denis Barthel (de)
On 18/10/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
> No. Copyrights are only deductible to the extent of the basis in the
> property (essentially how much you spent to obtain it). For copyrights
> purchased from someone else you might also be able to deduct any net income
> which the charity makes off the copyright. See the American Jobs Creation
> Act of 2004.
So *that's* what the "basis" is. I was finding that detail
surprisingly hard to figure out!
Hmm.
"If you donate a patent or other intellectual property ... your
deduction is limited to the basis of the property or the fair market
value of the property, whichever is less." - IRS Publication 526.
So does this mean that it's considered valueless until someone has
bought or sold it - it has no basis until then? I can sort of see how
this might happen, but it seems conceptually odd on some level...
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
Somebody found that Naver News, the biggest news portal in Korea,
provides news articles with a link to the related article on Korean
Wikipedia:
http://news.naver.com/news/read.php?mode=LSD&office_id=052&article_id=00001…
(Scroll down - it's about on the two third of the page. The news is
about the North Koreans celebrating 80th anniversary of the
establishment of [[Down-With-Imperialism Union]].)
This might well have been discussed thoroughly before. If so, I would
be very grateful for a pointer to the old thread.
Some teachers use Wikipedia in schools. Some schools also get their
IP:s blocked because of heavy vandalism, from the computers in the
school library and computer labs etc. The semi-new feature that an IP
can be blocked but editing of logged-in editors from that same IP
address is permitted, means these teachers have to tell their students
to create accounts. However, there is a limit to how many accounts can
be created a day from each IP-address - and so, it is not possible for
the whole class to create that user account. Blocking the school's IP
in this case prevents the teacher from using Wikipedia and introducing
the pupils/students in school.
Is there a good solution to this?
How many of the Wikipedias out there use this feature for eternal or
very long term blocks of IP:s of shared computers, which is the source
of lots of graffiti? What is the experience of this?
We are currently discussing this feature at Swedish Wikipedia, and
would greatly appreciate input from others.
/habj
A few months ago the ability was added to limit IP blocks to allow
logged-in contributions to continue. This allowed finer-grained blocking
of troublemakers on shared IPs (schools, AOL etc).
There's some suggestion to make this the default mode. I wanted to
announce this ahead of time since it will change what happens when
admins make a block without manually clicking something extra.
If there's no serious objection, we'll go ahead and change this in a few
days.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Hello to all,
I propose the creation of a new wikipedia in Griko: the Greek dialect spoken
in Southern Italy (Apulia and Calabria). I believe that wikipedia can
mantain alive a lot of endagered languages, and for this reason i ask the
creation of this new wikipedia
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