17. Invention, intellectual property and income¶
Goal:
- Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project
LICENSE¶
This week I tried to understand how the license and patent thing works to decide how I will use for my projects. After searching through different types of licenses, I decided to go for the Creative Commons (CC) Licenses. I read something about Common Creative License. It’s a non-profit organization who want expand the range of creative works available for everybody and it’s a flexible license. Moreover, it allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. There are different options:
In particular, I choose the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.
“This license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.”
The main characteristic of the license are in the picture below:
DISSEMINATION OF THE PROJECT¶
I have chosen a license which is fairly open to external use and modification as I am aware that my capacity for implementation at the moment is fairly limited but that the project can evolve in different ways.
Aware of how important an alternative solution to plastic is, I consider the diffusion of bioplastics to be fundamental and therefore I hope that more and more laboratories for processing alternative materials will be born and develop. It would be nice to think that DIY bioplastic creation would also be taught in schools to make children understand how important it is to teach them that there are possible alternatives. So I guess a reworking of my final project to make it fully functional and safe for outdoor use could benefit those who want to try and make a difference by spreading the idea that a different world is possible.