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Open Source vs. Copyright vs. Creative Commons vs. Open Access vs. Copyleft
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Francis Deblauwe · Saratoga, CA (United States) · Aug 21st, 2008 9:55 pm · 36 votes · 3 comments
 
Open Source vs. Copyright vs. Creative Commons vs. Open Access vs. Copyleft, Google Trends (http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/terms.html), CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)
Open Source vs. Copyright vs. Creative Commons vs. Open Access vs. Copyleft, by Google Trends
The free Google Trends tool offers many possibilities. Let's compare the related concepts that concern us all at iCommons. What do we see when facing off "open source," "copyright," "Creative Commons," "open access" and "copyleft"? Googlers go for "open source" followed by "copyright." The remaining three concepts are relatively unknown. In other words, the Open Access movement has its work cut out for it. Notice also that "copyright" is gaining traction in news while receding in searches. Due to the limitations of Google Trends, we cannot ascertain whether the Open Source movement follows the same trend.

Food for thought!

Note: Graph legend:
Scale is based on the average worldwide traffic of "creative commons" in all years.
"open source" 22.6 light blue
copyright 15.2 red
"creative commons" 1.00 orange
"open access" 0.60 green
copyleft 0.20 slate blue

See also my new, experimental Word Face-Off blog.

tags: united states policy-law open-access open-source copyleft copyright local-context-global-commons


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Hmm - interesting. I'm surprised open source beats copyright. Congrats for the open source movement!
Jessica Coates, ccAustralia · Brisbane (Australia) · Aug 29th, 2008 9:15 am
1 out of 1 person believes this is useful
your take: useful lame
Haven't used Google Trends for word search. Thanks for pointing it. Interesting...wonder why top light blue line for OS (22.6) falls below 20.0 after 2007. If we add others (CC, OA and CL) with Open Source would make the traffic vol 24.4...possibly a clear breakout. Is my understanding Ok?
Susmita_ Barua_seek2know.net · Lexington (United States) · Oct 09th, 2008 11:18 pm
1 out of 1 person believes this is useful
your take: useful lame
No, even adding them all together would still show a decline in Google searches. However, the bottom of the graph shows the mentions in online news of "copyright" and it does indeed go up. I guess you could say that people are more familiar with the term now hence the search decline cum news increase?
Francis Deblauwe · Saratoga, CA (United States) · Nov 08th, 2008 10:11 am
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame
 


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