Authentic language

Howard corrects his stand on storing and retrieving material by electronic means.

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Howard: You can take anything you like off the web, from the BBC, from Gutenberg, from Wikipedia, put into a digital library like Greenstone, with no worries about copyright, and then generate exercises like scrambled sentences, fill in the gaps, image guessing using FLAX.

Question: Are BBC, Gutenberg and Wikipedia all copyright free and open source?

Howard: OK, I didn’t quite mean “anything you like.” There’s a lot of stuff that you can’t, I mean it’s copyright. And I’m not sure how Greenstone handles BBC but books on Gutenberg are classics, out of copyright. Wikipedia articles are classified creative commons.
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