Legal Research

Anatomy of an Attention Span

By Simon Fodden

Google Trends has been improved lately — you can export data to a spreadsheet, for example — so I thought I’d take a look at how “copyright” has been faring as a search term in Canada over the last month. The graph that results shows clearly the increase in public interest as legislation became imminent, spiking just after the government introduced Bill 61, and falling away within a day or two, headed for the usual level of general lack of interest.

If you click on the image of the chart, you can see an enlarged version; the “A” is the point at which Bill 61 was introduced.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).