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Wendy's Blog: Legal Tags: CFP04: Brewster Kahle, Universal Access to Human Knowledge

CFP04: Brewster Kahle, Universal Access to Human Knowledge
When Brewster Kahle sees a problem, -- preferably a big, hairy, audacious problem -- he's likely to ask, without blinking, "Where do we start?" That's the approach he's taken to his (and our) current task, providing "universal access to all human knowledge."
Where most of us would be overwhelmed by the sheer size of the task, Brewster sees a challenge to be categorized and attacked systematically: Why can't we as a society share with all of our members the learning we've produced? What does that mean? Well, let's say there are 26 million books in the Library of Congress; 2-3 million sound recordings; maybe 100,000-200,000 theatrical releases and as many more video ephemera; 50 million websites; 1000 channels of television. For each chunk, the Internet Archive has a project: The Internet Bookmobile and million book project; live music archive; moving image collections; and, of course, the Wayback machine.
In his closing keynote for CFP, Brewster asked three questions about this universal access to all human knowledge: "can we?" "may we?" and "will we?" He expressed little doubt on the first -- technology can get us there if we have the will.%2

Comments

[Countmeout]

Somebody needs to STOP that MANIC-NUT Brewster Kahle before he destroys everyone's copyrights and intellectual property rights.

Just because *Kahle* thinks he's a genuis (and apparently so do some persons around these parts), does not give him or anyone else the right to rip off the rest of us!

If I ever find any of my personally owned copyrighted materials UNLAWFULLY ARCHIVED AND SHARED by Kahle's archiving schemes, I will be sure to SUE the hell out of him. I recommend that all artists, writers, and others interested in protecting their intellectual properties keep a close eye on Kahle and his sneaky projects and SUE the hell out of him, if and when he abuses your copyrights and property rights.
And what REALLY sucks is the way Kahle and his ilk are getting GRANTS in order to rip off independent artists, writers, researchers, and others whose intellectual properties are their life support!!!

The whole thing sucks, and Kahle is a raving MANIC LUNATIC... I wonder how he sounds & looks in his bipolar DOWN phase?!