While digging through releases in Discogs I spotted that some of them had a reference to a Creative Commons license . As I am dealing with open source licensing (of software) on a daily basis it of course immediately drew my attention and I started to wonder how many of the releases in the Discogs database have a reference to Creative Commons. I (again) grabbed the latest data dump from Discogs (which itself is under a CC0 license, so quite fitting), and adapted my scripts to report if there were any references to Creative Commons in either the free text fields, the notes or in some of the descriptions in the "Barcode and Other Identifiers" (BaOI) sections and found 7884 releases. I plotted the results of the release numbers, which you can see below (first bar: release number 1 - 999,999, second bar release number 1,000,000 - 1,999,999, and so on): Distribution of possibly CC-licensed works in the Discogs database What strikes me is that for older releases there are...
A blog dedicated to two of my hobbies: vinyl records and digital data and exploring where the two intersect. This blog is not affiliated with Discogs, but uses a lot of its data. On Discogs you can find me as metalmijn. I also get a lot of help from a friend you can find on Discogs as gerjolp Check out my Discogs cleanup scripts at: https://github.com/armijnhemel/cleanup-for-discogs/