Intellectual Property

Assignment

Create and document a license for your final project. Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project.

Learning Outcomes

Recognize the range of licenses available.
Formulate future opportunities.

Types of Licenses

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a type of organization that offers an alternative to full copyright. If you have a blog and place a Creative Commons statement on it, you are giving permission to anyone to use your material. There are seven different types of Creative Commons licenses and are explained below.

Public Domain

By placing this on a blog or image, you are giving full permission to anyone to use your material with no conditions. They may use it without permission, giving credit to you and for any reason they want.

Attribution License

This type of license allows the person to use your work, or any derivatives based on your work, only if they give you credit.

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only certain copies of your work if they give you credit. They cannot use derivatives or use it for commercial purposes.

Attribution-NonCommercial License

Like the license above, this allows others to use your work as well as derivatives of your work. Again they have to give you credit and cannot use it for commercial purposes.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

This license is like the previous two in that the person cannot use your work for commerial purposes. However, they can only use your work under a license identical to the one that you used for your work.

Attribution-ShareAlike License

Again, this license allows people to use your work and derivatives based on your work but only if they use it under an identical license that you used for your work. With this they can use it for commercial purposes.

Final Project License

For my final project, the type of license I will use is a Public Domain license. I am choosing this type of license because there are plenty of different smoker designs and mine does not have any key features that are revolutionary to the smoker world.

Since I am putting this up as a Public Domain product anyone can make it and make the changes they want to the design (ex. making it smaller or larger, different material, not having the digital thermometer, etc.). This would mean if someone wanted to make a large quantity of them, then they could do that.