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

Luis Villa luis at tieguy.org
Fri Mar 9 16:28:07 EST 2007


On 3/8/07, Mike Linksvayer <ml at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> 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

Oh, doh.

> * Whatever license used by the most popular contest source(s) will have
> been re-used the most, regardless of its impact globally

I figured those would have to be filtered out.

Luis



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