1. CC International Legal Day
2008-07-29
Creative Commons Adoption Metrics Update
Mike Linksvayer
Vice President, Creative Commons
Original photo by batega 1
Licensed under CC Attribution 2.0
http://flickr.com/photos/batega/2056949264/

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3. 130 million?
● New estimate (taken 2008-07) of
minimum number of CC licensed works
(was 90 million as of 2007-12)
● Using methodology similar to described
by Giorgos Cheliotis a year ago (finding
minimum 45-60m based on 2006-01
data)
● Uses simple scaling of numbers of
licenses found at Flickr and Yahoo! search
results
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4. Scaling code, needs work
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