Jimmy Wales’ Free Culture Manifesto

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and director of the Wikimedia Foundation, is working on his keynote for the Wikimania conference in Frankfurt. Ross Mayfield at Many2Many posted a preview and gives some background. What should we expect? Wales’ speech touches on ten things necessary for Free Culture:

  • Free the Encyclopedia!
  • Free the Dictionary!
  • Free the Curriculum!
  • Free the Music!
  • Free the Art!
  • Free the File Formats!
  • Free the Maps!
  • Free the Product Identifiers!
  • Free the TV Listings!
  • Free the Communities!

Mayfield offers more description of each item, go read it.

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2 Comments

  1. Striker
    Posted March 22, 2006 at 4:52 am | Permalink

    Super Fine !

  2. MOHSEN
    Posted August 9, 2006 at 2:04 pm | Permalink

    hi
    who you can send me any information about top topic?
    thanks a lot and be success

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