[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Jimmy Wales <jwales at 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?

Copyright to out of print k-12 textbooks that are no more than 10 years old would be my #1 choice.
We could then take that text and update it on Wikibooks to kick start full textbook creation. 

News-service photo archives would be my second choice.  

-- mav

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