Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Mike Linksvayer" <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:54:26 -0400, "Evan Prodromou"
<evan AT wikitravel.org> said:
> >>>>> "WVH" == Wouter Vanden Hove <wouter.vanden.hove AT pandora.be> writes:
> 
>     WVH> Are there currently any statistics known about the popularity
>     WVH> of the various CC Licenses?

You can use AlltheWeb backlink queries to get an idea.  AlltheWeb
currently finds for me:

3843    creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
89029   creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/
47225   creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/1.0/
169061  creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
62874   creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/
346786  creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/
81149   creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/
43      creativecommons.org/licenses/nd/1.0/
1312    creativecommons.org/licenses/nd-nc/1.0/
550     creativecommons.org/licenses/nc/1.0/
3585    creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sa/1.0/
8550    creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/
 
> I'd assume that there'd be some interesting statistics based on the
> referer (sic) logs for the "some rights reserved" image.

Not without crawling the referring pages.  The same image URL is used for
all licenses, excepting the public domain dedication, which gets the "no
rights reserved" image.  We may support per-license image URLs at some
point so that developers can always grab the correct image given a
license URL (currently public domain must be special-cased).
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  Mike Linksvayer
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