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  • From: Heather Morrison <hgmorris AT sfu.ca>
  • To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>, cc-community AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [cc-licenses] flickr and CC: noncommercial the most popular element
  • Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:35:27 -0800

flickr now has close to a quarter billion CC licensed photos - congrats to flickr and to CC! flickr has a page showing the numbers of photos by CC license, which provides a useful means of analyzing the most popular licenses and license elements for flickr users.

The most popular element, by far, is Noncommercial, selected for over 173 million photos or 70% of the CC flickr subset.

The two most popular licenses, together accounting for more than half the photos, are CC-BY-NC-SA (29%) and CC-BY-NC-ND (28%).

If CC is a democracy, and other communities using CC licenses show similar results, perhaps NC should be the default?

Links and graphs are posted on my blog:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/flickr-and-creative-commons-popularity.html

best,

Heather Morrison





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