[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...
Till Westermayer
till at tillwe.de
Mon Oct 16 20:38:37 UTC 2006
Jimmy Wales schrieb am 16.10.2006 22:13:
> Till Westermayer wrote:
>> On the "dream" thread: putting 100.000.000 $ as stock in a foundation
>> will result in 1.000.000 $ or something per year to spend -- why not
>> use it that way?
>
> Well the point is not an unrestricted gift, though that is fun to think
> about too. The point is not political lobbying, though that is fun to
> think about too. :-)
>
> The point is: suppose someone wanted to buy $100,000,000 of existing
> copyrighted material and set it free. What should it be?
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.
Of course, even in this model one has to decide on what to spend the
annual $1M. For a good starting point, I agree with the textbooks
(college, university) idea.
Till
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