On 10/24/06, Maury Markowitz maury_markowitz@hotmail.com wrote:
Maybe, but you have to hear about it first. I didn't. No one I know has. So who HAS heard of CC other than a few wiki-laywers and nerds? Can the number of people in the general public that are aware of these issues be represented on a handheld calculator?
My handhold calculator handles up to 10^99, so that's not really a great way of describing it ;) But I suspect you meant within seven digits or so, so I suspect no more than a few million people worldwide have even heard of it, yes.
A fairly large number of people on Flickr use CC licenses, for example, but almost all of them pick 'non-commercial', since that option is there and the knee-jerk reaction is 'Of course I don't want corporations profiting off my work!'.
Some education/evangelism about free content and its benefits is probably in order.
-Matt