Wikipedia founder: what copyrights should we buy with $100million?

[method77]

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales asking Wikipedians to suggest copyrights to buy and free with a $100 million budget:

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

[Shawn]

I realize I'm what's known as a negative thinker but the possibilities of where the money is coming from and the likely future of wikipedia under that scenario alarms me.

[DudeAsInCool]

Magazines or newspapers would be a good idea to catalogue

[method77]

I realize I'm what's known as a negative thinker but the possibilities of where the money is coming from and the likely future of wikipedia under that scenario alarms me.

on the other hand, I think this is a great idea

[DudeAsInCool]

on the other hand, I think this is a great idea

what would you use it for?>

[method77]

I don't know. Newspaper archives came to mind first

[DudeAsInCool]

I don't know. Newspaper archives came to mind first

yep--and magazines...