[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...
Daniel Mayer
maveric149 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 15 18:44:59 UTC 2006
--- 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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