[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

[Rich Holton]

Some really large, fairly comprehensive, professional quality 
photographic libraries. Say everything from  National Geographic? (I 
don't even know if that's possible, let alone for $100 million). It 
seems to me that this is one of the largest problem areas for us. At 
least on en.wikipedia, we have gobs of "fair use" photos that at least 
raise questions about copyright for downstream users of our material. 
Having access to a huge, comprehensive photo library would move us way 
forward.

-Rich Holton


Jimmy Wales 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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