This week is about invention, intellectual property and income. The goal of this assignment is to develop a plan for dissemination of my final project.This week i will be going through various license and learn about it also to make a awareness that which license is suits for my product
My final project is a bracelet( wrisplay ). Wrisplay is a bracelet designed such a way that to detect wave off the finger over the bracelet. Using this wave of the finger can control the tasks like slide transition, play, and pause system control, etc. A bracelet that will fit your wrist makes you relax and do the job.
This is interfaced to the system via Bluetooth and can control the system within the 10-meter rangebr>
Licensing
" Licensing means renting or leasing of an intangible asset. It is a process of creating and managing contracts between the owner of a brand and a company or individual who wants to use the brand in association with a product, for an agreed period of time, within an agreed territory."
I think that the project should be left open source to allow people to improve it and to adapt it to their needs. For this I am going through various license to know which license is suits for my product
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting an open and accessible Internet that is enriched with free knowledge and creative resources for people around the world to use, share and cultivate. Although Creative Commons is best known for its licenses, CC offers other legal and technical tools that also facilitate sharing and discovery of creative works, such as CC0, a public domain dedication for rights holders who wish to put their work into the public domain before the expiration of copyright, and the Public Domain Mark, a tool for marking a work that is in the worldwide public domain. Creative Commons licenses and tools were designed specifically to work with the web, which makes content that is offered under their terms easy to search for, discover, and use.
This was formulated primarily for sharing creative contents by creators legally. It clearly states
whats all rights are reserved by the content creator and ho the end user can use the work. The gist
of this license is the “commons” ideology. It is considered to be providing an alternative to the “all
reights reserved” copyright license to “some right reserved” creative commons license. As an
agency it has also contributed in establishing an alternative to the copyright and giving a face to the
"commons" in the present age.
This is how you can display Creative Commons copyrights.
Creative Commons: Remix from Creative Commons on Vimeo.
This work may be reproduced, modified, distributed, performed, and displayed for any purpose, but must acknowledge Fab Academy 2016 project.
Copyright is retained and must be preserved. The work is provided as is; no warranty is provided, and users accept all liability.
The understandable version of the CC Attribution 4.0 License is as follows
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 follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
• Attribution - You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and
indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in
any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures
that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
MIT License
It is easy to comprehend compared to many other licenses. It has very limited restriction over reuse
of the code. It is also compatible to many of the existing commonly used licenses like GPL and
many other copyleft licenses. The license comes under the category of permissive licenses, which
defined as "lets people do anything they want with your code as long as they provide attribution
back to you and don’t hold you liable”. That is pretty enough for our needs now.
It states more clearly what all right are vested upon the end user which in my opinion is great.
Its ease of use and effectiveness has convinced me to use the same for my entire work dine during
Fab Academy.
The literature of the license is as follows
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) -year -copyright- holders
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software
and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or
substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.”
Choosing a License for My Work.
My project is a simple wearable remote to control computer and mobile tasks that can be fabricated and assembled at any Fab Lab by any user, made of affordable materials. The idea of this wearable remote is to make as many modules as needed depending on the function. So the idea is to make it as an open source project that can be used by anyone. I also see the project being personal and collaborative. So people can connect and interact with the design in several ways, it can be used in different ways, modified but keep the original idea and create the same
Therefore the license that I would like to use is the creative common. It is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA
Funding
Would like to think that this final product would be of interest to an Angel investor being this my main source for funding along with a possible crowd-funded campaign.
there are several founding possibilities:
All of them are realistic and not mutually exclusive.
If the first prototype works well, for the next few years, it can be improved.
Once the prototype becomes a "minimum viable product" (MVP), the project can grow and start asking for government assistance to expand the team. This will help us to redesign the elements that can be improved and learn about its usages, failures, etc.
Of course, everything should be promoted by a nonprofit organization.