{"id":1100,"date":"2006-05-31T22:14:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T01:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2006-05-31T22:19:17","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T01:19:17","slug":"public-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"Public Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">R<\/span>eading about all these issues people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/2006\/05\/31.html#When:8:43:56AM\">have with Wikipedia<\/a> the main point of why Wikipedia is &#8216;good&#8217;, is that it is a valuable <em>public domain<\/em> resource. I&#8217;ve seen Dave Winer hammer about this-and-that, but I bet the main problem he has with Wikipedia is that someone else wrote his biography. Big deal. It&#8217;s politics created by characters who want to be listed in the history books. Get over it: if you (say) thought up the Relativity Theory,  Uncertainty principle, The Laws of Motion, humanity <em>owes<\/em> you a book. In other cases, like making up ambigious specs, you&#8217;re not even worth a <em>footnote<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>I, for example, will never claim that Wikipedia is authorative (I wouldn&#8217;t say the same of a library either). But on this Internet, where information is slowly being locked up behind obnoxious rules and regulations, I&#8217;m glad that there&#8217;s at least a Wikipedia where I canlook up <em>public domain<\/em> images and information about the digestive system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading about all these issues people have with Wikipedia the main point of why Wikipedia is &#8216;good&#8217;, is that it is a valuable public domain resource. I&#8217;ve seen Dave Winer hammer about this-and-that, but I bet the main problem he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}