18. Invention, intellectual property and income¶
Assignment
develop a plan for dissemination of your final project
prepare drafts of your summary slide (presentation.png, 1920x1080) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~10 MB) and put them in your root directory
Research¶
Research on distinction between Copyright (droits d’auteur in French) and Creative Commons
The legislation is not the same in France where Copyright doesn’t have any legal effects.
Difference between open-source and free softwares in this article (and this one in French).
To sum up : both terms allows to do the same type of things and relies on the same type of softwares. But the values implied are not the same : free software implies some kind of philosophy and values for the society while the open source softwares are made mostly for practical reasons.
Plan for dissemination¶
Due to its unusual aspect, the guitar can attract the attention of people. This could be used for educational purpose upon digital fabrication. For example, the joinery is appearing as an obvious feature of CNC milling and computer design.
It could also be proposed for shops who sells both guitar and drums at the storefront (after much more finishing touch…). The atypical aspect of it could catch the eye of the customer.
Things to improve¶
In order to make the dissemination possible I would need to work on the drum part for a more stable output. Make new tests on pads. And work on the finishing touches (Mill a new top body part, better cable management, soldering wires instead of using pin headers)
Path to explore : add a Raspberry Pi to replace the dependence to a computer.
A bigger challenge would be to make a synthesiser myself.
License¶
I’m not going to make a patent for this project because it’s a project from the Fabacademy and it benefited from other open sourced projects. The fact that it’s been public prevent it from being a patent.
I’m going to make it as a Creative Commons license :
Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law. From the reuser’s perspective, the presence of a Creative Commons license on a copyrighted work answers the question, “What can I do with this work?”
I’m chosing to do a BY-NC-SA license which means :
BY - Attribution : Credit must be given to the creator
NC - Non Commercial : Only non commercial use of the work are allowed without the author approval
SA - Share Alike : Adaptations must be shared under the same terms
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.