Case Studies/Freebase
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Overview
Freebase is a collaborative project that imports structured data from a variety of sources on the web, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and the Stanford University Library. Freebase currently contains information about 20 million topics, or entities, and its data is available for reuse under CC Attribution.
The New York Times covered Freebase's launch in 2007, which is when they also started using CC licensing.
You can find out more about Freebase at their wiki.
License Usage
Freebase data is available for reuse under CC Attribution. Freebase makes it easy for users to attribute them by copying and pasting a simple html code: http://www.freebase.com/policies/attribution.
Motivations
How did the author or organization first hear about Creative Commons? Why did they choose to license under Creative Commons? Which license did they select and why? Any other issues you may have come across/comments you’d like to make.
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Impact
What is the impact of this CC-enabled project or resource? Specifically, what has the license enabled that otherwise would not exist? Provide statistics or other data if possible.
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Technical Details
See Freebase's attribution policy.
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Media
- 2007 NYTimes article: Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching
