[cc-community] What does NC means?

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Fri Sep 21 03:54:42 EDT 2007


Rob Myers wrote:
> Jon Phillips wrote:
>> Completely agree. Past metrics research on cc licensing selection shows
>> that initial selection of CC licenses is towards more restrictive
>> (copyright) and then people start selecting more free/permissive CC
>> licenses as experience grows...this is seen in overall distribution of
>> license selection...ML can point to the research if needed...
>>
>> Thus, it makes sense to have a gateway into the larger freedom space...
> 
> Oh if that is now happening then that's good. Cool.

We really don't have the data (or haven't processed it enough) to say.

I have some anecdotes -- sorry, the only two I can think of off the top 
of my head are CC family, so don't really count:
http://joi.ito.com/archives/2004/05/27/creative_commons_20.html
http://joi.ito.com/archives/2004/06/28/why_free_for_commercial_use.html
http://laboratorium.net/archive/2007/02/16/share_and_enjoy_25

And three time series data points, which don't count for much:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5936

I'm hoping to make our (extremely messy) data publicly available 
soonish, including some logfiles (with IP, referrer, and anything else 
that could be privacy compromising stripped of course) so that others 
can analyze.

Mike


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