Talk:Copyright wishlist/Archive 1

Suggestions

User:FrancisTyers

Abamedia: Russian Archives Online. — contains a hell of a lot of stuff that can't be reproduced — photographs, films, sounds etc. Much of the stuff would be in the public domain (e.g. newsreels from the 1920s.)
Stuff formerly licensed as {{PD-Soviet}}. Some of the stuff that has been deleted should be able to be bought for a reasonable price... if the original author can be found. (I have an off-Wikipedia archive of around 3,000 of the former PD-Soviet images). - FrancisTyers 16:27, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Frederick "FN" Noronha

Government-funded software.
Archives.
All UN-related publications.
Photographs of archival value.
Textbooks.
Out-of-print books.
Documentary film and sharable footage.
Music created by non-corporate artistes.
Recordings of state-funded radio stations.
Newspapers' content (which are over 24 hours old, in case of dailies)
Local language computing solutions
Translations tools across languages.
Archives of content of all websites prior to 2005.
Government records and files over five years old.
Old musical recordings on wax cylinders and especially porcelain, depicting the development of modern music around the world. Like films, these would have to be remastered, at a considerable costs.

WarX

Schemes (from designers of them) of machines throught all ages (especially 16th-21st century):
- ships
- steam engines
- warmachines
- fuel and electric engines
- full factorys/power plants/etc.
- cars
- locomotives (train engines)
- planes
- space ships
- etc.
- Especially vector versions would be very nice (or scans precise enought to construct all of those machines and vectorise the plans itself) --WarX 17:37, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Erik Zachte

Code2000

Danny

Three things from me:

Power scanners to help absorb materials, including scanners with page-turning capacity that do not destroy old books.
Invest in the restoration of old films, mainly on celluloid, which would then be entered into the public domain, rather than controlled by the people who first manufactured them. These films, which are disintegrating day after day, are part of our cultural heritage, and include works by Chaplin, Theda Bara, Buster Keaton, etc. (for Americans) as well as the great European masters (Vigo, Eisenstadt, Lumiere Brothers, etc., for the Europeans. Old newsreels are an important historical document of key events such as World War I, the Russian Revolution, etc.
Old musical recordings on wax cylinders and especially porcelain, depicting the development of modern music around the world. Like films, these would have to be remastered, at a considerable costs. Danny 16:03, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bogdan

There are a few types of photos for which a free equivalent is very hard to find:

photos of 20th century presidents and other incumbents of various countries.
plants and animals in isolated places. Anyone can take photos of the plants which grow in the backyard or the nearest forest, but the greatest diversity of species in our world is found in places like Amazonia and Indonesia. A collection of identified plants would be of great value.

But also, it would be great to try to obtain Public Domain works:

Wikimedia could try to collaborate with various governments for the digitalization and preservation of public domain works and archives. The governments of many countries have extensive archives of old photographs, engravings or even paintings, which would be of great encyclopedical values for our history and biography articles.

Also, Wikisource and Project Gutenberg could try to collaborate with various libraries, also for the scanning and OCRing old books and periodicals.

Bogdan 16:59, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

555

Copyright property of translations of classical texts that don't have yet a public domain/free use version, copyright property of best selling books to allow development of paralel universes and fan-fictions to everyone, copyright property for a high quality dictionary (monolingual/bilingual) and copyright property of Scansoft OminiPage to release it under GPL and port do Unix/Linux OS may be a good start point =D 555 17:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]