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.

tags: free, free culture, jimmy wales, wikimania, wikimedia, wikimedia foundation, wikipedia

Posted August 8, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: free, free culture, jimmy wales, wikimania, wikimedia, wikimedia foundation, wikipedia.

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