Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

Week 17's assignment

Our assignment for this week is to develop a plan for dissemination for our final project.

Plan for dissemination

In my case, this is really concrete because I applied to a call for projects name "Make it happen", which is co-organized by our fablab WoMa and a crowfunding platform called Ulule.
This call-for projects is devided into the following steps :

Period	Steps
April 7 to May 26	Selection of the ten best projects : Mine is one of them !!!
June 17 to 19	"Makeathon" : 48h during which each team must work on his project to deliver at the end a prototype as advanced as possible
June 20 to end of August	The real prototyping phase begins + preparation of the crowfunding campaign with the help of Ulule
Sept. 1 to Oct. 21	Crowdfunding campaign
Oct. 24 to 31	Public votes for the best projects
Early November	Prize award ceremony

When I first picked my final project idea I had no intention to comercialize it at all but when I was proposed to participate to Make It Happen, I jut thought "Why not ?".
For the moment I did not think in details of how I will organize my crowdfunding campaign but I think the aim would be to collect enough money to create the few first finished versions of the clock, but also to create a website to present the product and to develop an App for web and/or smartphones, to act as an interface to control the settings of the clock.

Licensing

I want to register my idea and all of my work under the Creative Commons which is simple, open and word-widely recognized.
What I want to protect is not the software or let's say the technical part, which is based on opensource previous projects, but rather the design idea which is more original I think.
Of course, since I'm participating to a crowdfunding campaign with a final goal of selling my product, I don't wan't to allow commercial use of it, but attribution, reproduction, modification and diffusion are OK. This would be this license :

• BY is for attribution ("By Thomas Feminier")
• NC stands for "Non commercial"

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