World66 is a Dutch company which embraced the open content idea and is currently trying to transform it into a profitable business. Open content, coined by analogy with open source, (though technically it is actually share-alike) describes any kind of creative work including articles, pictures, audio, and video that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying of the information. ...
The site was founded in 1999 by Richard and Douwe Osinga as osinga.com, but the name was changed to World66 in the same year and they were soon joined by Michael Manikowski. On 29 November2003, it expanded by absorbing the travel-related CapitanCook wiki. November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... CapitanCook was a free, open content travel guide. ...
Technology
World66 runs a wiki-like software based on the Zope application server, which allows everyone to add or edit contents. The site claims more than 80,000 travel related articles covering about 10,000 destinations around the world and all of them are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 Licence. Version 2 of Some Rights Reserved logo Some Rights reserved logo No Rights reserved logo The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to legally build upon and share. ...
Issues
In 2004, World66 unilaterally relicensed all contributed content from the GNU FDL to CC by-sa 1.0. The legality of this move and the resulting copyright status of the content has been questioned. GFDL redirects here. ...
World66 was a Dutch company which embraced the open content idea and tried to transform it into a profitable business.
World66 uses wiki-like software based on the Zope application server, which allows everyone to add or edit contents.
In 2004, World66 relicensed all content to an open license first a GNU FDL license and consequently to CC by-sa 1.0 - those who had contributed under GNU FDL license were informed of the change by e-mail and had the possibility to withdraw contributions.
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