Week 17 - Invention, intellectual property and income

Plan for dissemination:

I have selected this license because the Creative Commons public licenses provide a standardized set of terms and conditions that creators and other rights holders can utilize to share their original works and other copyrighted materials. It is a perfect fit for my project.

The chosen license is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Under this license, you are free to:

  • Share: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you abide by the license terms.

Here are the specific terms:

  • Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if any changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in a way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • ShareAlike: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
  • No additional restrictions: You may not impose legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Notices: You are not obligated to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.

No warranties are given. The license may not provide you with all the permissions necessary for your intended use. For instance, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you can utilize the material.

Future Plan:

Currently the project can read the status of the pet's food dish and read the status of the container, likewise it has an actuator to move the food to the dish, as future work it is desired to connect all these capabilities with a webapp so that Through Wi-Fi communication, the data read by the device can be monitored and actions can be activated from this webapp.

Business Plan:

In order to market this product, a license should be made to a specialized company that is in charge of carrying out its large-scale production.

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