[cc-licenses] NC considered harmful? Prove it...

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Thu Mar 8 22:30:30 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 09:05 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> On 3/8/07, Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> > > You could perhaps measure re-use of
> > > samples in ccmixter for a similar study?
> >
> > That's the sort of thing I'm looking for. Yes, ccMixter identifies
> > sources, doesn't it? I could select samples of works at random,
> 
> Presumably CC could give you access to the database, and you could use
> all of them, not just a random sample.

Yes, CC would.  This reminds me that we should add source info to the
atom dump.  Probably not for a couple weeks.

ccMixter data is worth looking at, but skewed badly in at least two
ways:
* No by-sa present
* Whatever license used by the most popular contest source(s) will have
been re-used the most, regardless of its impact globally

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