Development of Creative Commons licenses

[James Grimmelmann <james.grimmelmann AT yale.edu>]

At 06:20 PM 8/16/2004, Greg London wrote:
> Has CC ever released any numbers that approximate how many
> CC-NC licenses were requested versus how many CC-SA licenses?
> My guess is that the overwhelming majority are CC-NC, just
> by way of their "cartoon" intros talk about CC-NC.

Since license adoption is not really centralized (the license picker 
doesn't say whether someone actually used a license, or on which works, or 
how many other people took them up on it), reliable data are not entirely 
easy to come by.

But if I remember correctly, statistics about actual usage out on the web 
seem to indicate that the most commonly-used license is CC-NC-SA, far and 
away; it's more than twice as popular as any other license and accounts for 
an absolute majority of our hits.

(I don't see any legal advice in this email, but I should still point out 
that I'm not stating anything official on behalf of CC.)

James