Till Westermayer wrote:
For the visionary minded: combine both, set up a foundation with the goal to "free" copyrighted material (for wikipedia and others), give it $ 100,000,000 so it can use $ 1,000,000 every year from now on for buying copyrights. Of course that's not the same impact as spending $ 100M at once, but it would be a far more sustainable approach to change the way copyright works and do something good for a long time.
Without agreeing that it's the way to go, in this vision we could do better than a 1% return on investment. ;-)
Ec