Invention, intellectual property, and income

Week 18


ASSIGNEMENT

  • Create and document a license for your final project./li>
  • Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project.
  • Prepare a summary slide (presentation.png, 1280x1024)
  • a video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~10 MB) in your root directory

LEARNING EXPERIENCE

For this week's assignment, I worked with Aurore, Nicole, 2 law students and their teacher Julien.
I wanted to test this way of working for the following years of the fabacademy .
We want to work with a student and his teacher from different disciplines to help us in each week's assignment .
It is quite interesting to work that way both for the university student and for the fabacademy student

It was really interresting. They did a great job, they became teacher for a week ...

WHAT TO PROTECT ?

 We started by a brainstorming on how the project will be commercialized.

Will it be on the market as is?
Will it be produced by me, by others? a factory ?
What's original? ...
This forced me to define more precisely the project.
It is a very interesting and important moment for the rest of the project life.
I realized that, at this stage, different paths are possible.

PATENT OR NOT PATENT ?

To be a reputable invention, it is necessary that a person representative of the field can not reproduce it easily,
and that it is not already done or patented.
I think this project is not patentable in the current state of its development.
Moreover it is not my goal.

MAKING A BRAND ?

Little interest at this stage.
We do not really have the time to work on a brand, name , logo ...

WHAT KIND OF WORK HAS COPYRIGHT ?

According to the texts we read on the website of the Belgian federal government those are the regulations for any Belgian citizen .

Federal Governement Belgium Copyright

The question will therefore be what do I do with this right?
What will be the limits of the object?

My idea for this project is rather to market a very inexpensive object,
maybe even only the electronic part and open the design of the object.
The idea is to make a crowdfunding and at the same time create a community of users
who will share recipes and the object in the form they have given it.

We will therefore be in a licensing logic of the common creative type
that I will define a little further.

CREATIVE COMMON IN BELGIUM ?

Here is the international creative commons website.
First thing to check is the presence of CC in Belgium.
Indeed the texts of the licenses must correspond to the local laws .
This is the case so everything is good on this side.
<< So I have to decide what I'm protecting.
There are 4 parameters in this type of license.

ATTRIBUTION: All Creative Commons licenses require those who use your works to be automatically assigned, to credit you in the desired manner, without suggesting that you approve their use or that you give your endorsement or support.

NON-COMMERCIAL USE: You authorize others to reproduce, disseminate and (unless you choose the 'No Derivative Works' option) to modify your work, for any non-commercial use, unless they obtain your prior authorization.

SHARING IN THE SAME CONDITIONS: You authorize others to reproduce, distribute and modify your work, provided that they publish any adaptation of your work under the same conditions as those adopted for your work. Anyone wishing to publish an adaptation under other conditions must obtain your prior permission.

NO WORK DERIVED: You authorize the reproduction and distribution only of the original of your work. If someone wants to change it, they must get your permission.



For my project I'm going to work with the following license:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Under the following terms:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license,
and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner,
but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material
you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.





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