Week 19

Invention, Intellectual Property and Business Models


Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project

Dissemination Plan

The final project to start with a simple modular guitar with conductive strings, is going rather well. I have contacted the foundation In de Ruimte for physically disabled children and they are looking forward to help with the testing.

For awereness I will test with local children from neighbourhoods and in near future with schools.

This simple prototype will be the starting point for a modular instrument, with a guitar as starting point.

There are currently no real instruments with the physically challenged and if there are, they are mostly wooden blocks and can be fairly expensive.

The Goal is to ultimately have an instrument and tool for learning at an affordable price for children with or without physical disabilities.

This means foundations and schools can have music classes that, teach about music and electronics in a fun way.

It should be easy to interface with, setup, lightweight educational and fun.

The naming scheme is going to be based on mythology and will use a name that is easy to say and remember.

This project I want to name the Yggie modular Guitar, based on the Yggdrasil; Tree of Knowledge and it is my intention to reach foundations and instutions for the you, able and otherwise.

The future I look forward to is to have several kits, going from a guitar to a piano, or piaono to drum instrument, thus making it versatile and have long life.

License selected

Choices and reading.

My project at it's current state is not intended to be sold commercially, it is rather intended to be a tool for education, by making and learning.

There is no special software, that comes with it nor software written for it, at least not yet. If there will be any software for this project it would be OpenSource.

I am looking at 3 different licenses from the CC, FSF-GNU and MIT.

Choosing one or several requires reading, with a lot of jargon (looking at you CC) and is at times difficult to comprehend.

However there are several diffrences and comminalities

The Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International mostly resembles the GNU General Public License, however the distinct difference, between these two is that the GPL is focused on software, while the BY-SA focuses on all arts.

The MIT License is a permissive free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a permissive license, it puts only very limited restriction on reuse and has, therefore, an excellent license compatibility

The MIT license is however not copyleft which is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works down the line. Copyleft software licenses are considered protective or reciprocal, as contrasted with permissive free software licenses.

The CC BY-SA 4.0 and the GNU GPL, are both consiedere copyleft, meaning i.e. project carrying the MIT license can be integrated into CC BT-SA 4.0 and GNU GPL projects, but not the other way around.

Seeing as I want to have my project in schools for children both able and physically challenged, The MIT license does grant more freedom and is compatible with a plethora of other licenses.

According to slant.co MIT is ranked 1st while the CC is ranked 3rd.

It is short and easy to understand.

License for my project

(c) Pascal A. van Lierop 2019 This work may be reproduced, modified, distributed, performed, and displayed for any purpose, but must acknowledge "Yggie Modular Guitar"(c). Copyright is retained and must be preserved. The work is provided as is; no warranty is provided, and users accept all liability.

Final Project