A Word On Michigan Library CC0 Initiative: Are We Blowing Wish Flowers?

"John Wilkin, a librarian at the University of Michigan whose library recently dropped 700,000 books into the public domain with the CC Zero license, has made an interesting comment on this act. He compared bibliographic records made available all over the internet to so many flower seeds in the wind. We need to be careful not to end up with a “dispersed and diluted” action. Otherwise, we are in danger of getting “babel” where we want “authority”. Do we seem like children blowing wish flowers in the wind while we are opening up data on the big web?..."