Creative Commons has released a breakdown of the types of
particular licenses chosen by CC users, when sampled through a search on Yahoo! of CC licenses found through the
web. Roughly 95% of licenses request attribution, 74% are non-commercial, while only 2% contribute to the
public domain. Worth nothing that these were files found through Yahoo! (webpages) so may not reflect a good
sample of all works claiming CC licenses.
1. This is interesting data. I have started a nightly playlist at WebJay of daily contributions to the Internet Archive and am seeing some similar numbers in the data we collect and publish (most submissions want attribution of course, but few allow derivation).
Check out our WebJay nightly playlist at http://webjay.org/by/app.etitio.us/internetarchivetonight
Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Markus Sandy