Invention, Intellectual Property and Business Models
Week 18
Assignment :
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Summarized two kinds of licenses and explained why you chose one.
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Imagined and outlined possibilities and described how to make them probabilities
My Invention :
My project is a wagon that will follow you by using pixi-camera (image processing based on colors) , it will also avoid crashing any obstacle using ultrasonic sensor. The main idea of my project is creating a robot that follows you around which can be used as a cart , personal assistant while working , wagon to transfer many things at the same time without any effort at construction sites and warehouses. I am proud of myself that I gained the knowledge from Fab Lab to make my project. Of course I have many enhancements to make on my project on the structure design to differently use the robot in many useful ways in our daily lives.
Intellectual Property :
I will be talking about a few types of license below :
The MIT License
Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>
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.
The MIT License is certainly not good for me because its open source too much and there is no kind benefit for the owner.
The Creative Common License
The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed and built on all within the boundaries of copyright law.
For me, I think this is fine for me since it has some benefits for the owner and not open-source for everybody like the MIT license. From the above schedule that is really useful and summarizes the different types of Creative Common License.
My Choice :
I choose the Creative Common License (BY-NC type) of the because it forbids commercial use , and at the same time it allows me to amend and change the license in the future. This gives me many options in the future , by other means I can modify my invention in the future and I could modify my license as well , instead of having to apply for a new license when I modify my invention and also this reduces the risk of somebody else modifying my invention and applying it as a new invention. All this concludes a bright commercial business future for my project and enhancing it to the max under legal cover.
Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.