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October 24th, 2006

If Wikipedia gets $100M, which books and other content should it buy the rights to?

“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?” - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Also see meta-wiki and Slashdot discussion.

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