Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income: Establish your business.
This week, we have to figure out if we want to register our work with a patent or a license. Honestly, I don't think a patent or a license is something I want to do for my project, especially because it is a Fab Academy project. Having the chance to work in QBIC Fab Lab tought me how important the open sources file can be, especially that they really contributed a lot during my journey in Fab Academy. Therefore, I am going to share my experience and the work I have done with everyone to learn and to be able to modify it in the future if necessarily.
Open-source Licenses
Creative Commons is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses, free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. You can read more about them here.
The most basic and open of all Creative Commons licenses is the Attribution license. This allows you to freely use, edit, and distribute the work, if you give proper credit to the original publisher. You can even use the work for commercial purposes. The important thing to understand about the Creative Commons Attribution license is that you have to give "appropriate credit" to the creator of the original work. This is the base requirement in every license agreement, so it's important to get right. Here's what is required to meet the standards of appropriate credit:
1. Creator Name.
2. copyright notice.
3. license notice.
4. disclaimer notice.
5. link to the original work.
Me using this template can be a good example for the Attribution license, I did not remove the copyrights at the end of the webpage, and I refered to the original files and owner of this template in Project Management assignment. .
There are different types of Attribution license like; ShareAlike, NoDerivs, NonCommercial, NonCommercial-ShareAlike, and NonCommercial-NoDerivs. All have different process and require to provide different credits when using the publisher work. However I want my project to have the NonCommercial-ShareAlike, so people can use it and share it without putting it in the market, and if they want also they can edit it.
Future Plans
I am so thankful and exsited at the same time that I went through this experince. As I am working in QBIC Fab Lab I am planning to continue developing every project or assignment I worked on during Fab Academy, and keep sharing these projects either locally or globally with Fab Academy network. I am also very excited for the second patch of Fab Academy and I really hope they can perform better than us especially that now we have people that went through the experince and have the know how.