experimentation
make it happen
This weeks assignment was dedicated to develop a plan for dissemination of my final project, to analyse various potentials and future plans of development and continuity of it. My final project is lamp. Smart lamp. Interactive lamp. Lamp with 3D printed shell. In the very near future I am planning to collaborate with a provider of 3D printing services to create a design brand for small products like this lamp extending twards the direction of house couture, home deco + accessories, tableware, jewelry,... lets see how far we can explore! so stay tuned!
Most of my work during this phase was possible by using open-source tools, snippets of code or community help. But since this is a commercial product, I’ll keep developing it in the future.
Neil’s intro + the class by our local lab instructors made it clear how big the universe of intelectual property protection is. I continued with my own research on the licencing topic and this website was really helpful:... I also had discussed my project licencing with my lab instructors and also my friend lawyer focused on the copyrights to get local feedback from Austria/Europe. Here is a small review of a few open source copyright licenses:
Open source is different from free. refers to something people can modify and share because its design is publicly accessible.. Open source shares the code. For example Arduino - its code is freely shared and leads to many individuals contributing to its development. People tend to buy the product, the board, and its peripherals. This is showing open source as a way of placing value on the benefits of the thing (its free development) rather than the thing itself (though that is the literal value: it is sold). Smart Citizen is also a very good example of an open source.
Creative Commons is about preserving credit and promoting distribution. You sign up for, in effect, a limitation of the automatic copyright on original work. The purpose is to allow distribution among and collaboration with people you may never know or meet.
General Public License = GPL: to allow users to freely change software. "The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too. When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things. To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights or asking you to surrender the rights. Therefore, you have certain responsibilities if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it: responsibilities to respect the freedom of others.
Fab Lab license. Simply acknowledgement of contribution, this license states: "(c) holder date This work may be reproduced, modified, distributed, performed, and displayed for any purpose, but must acknowledge "project name". Copyright is retained and must be preserved. The work is provided as is; no warranty is provided, and users accept all liability." Its goal is to leave room for commercialization while protecting the freedom to share the work.
The MIT License Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. the software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. in no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software. copyright 2017 MIT
WTFPL DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long as the name is changed. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
My design is protected by law without the need of registration. With a license I give people the right to use my design in a way described by the license, so therefore I chose following licence:Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. In general, if you want to grant others the right to use your design in someway, creative commons is very good.
Conclusions
© Eva Blsakova. All rights reserved.
1. The project is protected by copyright law if its somehow special and not just ordinary design. 2. There is a possibility to register a certain design (in Austria it coasts 97 €, for whole Europe for 350 €) - this registration has the advantage over copyright protection, that it must not be "special" and there is no need to prove in court that its special, its just easier if something happens.
