18. INVENTION, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, AND INCOME

Index

• Assignment
• Inventions
• Licensing your work: Different types of licenses
  
  • Mit License
  • Creative Commons
• Dissemination of my work
• Future development plans
• Links
• Summary

A. Assignment

• Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project.
• Prepare a summary slide (presentation.png, 1280x1024) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~10 MB) in your root directory

b. Inventions

Invention refers to a novel device, method, composition or process which you developed. You can legally protect this invention so that only you or a person/institution assigned by the inventor only can make monitory benifit out of it. There are laws in every country which helps inventors protect their invetion, often referred to as intellectual property. Thought these laws are different in country to country the general implication is the same. Common difference occurs in the what items can be patented. For example in some countries life forms can be patented and in others is cannot be.

c. Licensing your work: Different types of license

c1. MIT License

This is one of the most permissive free software license. This type of licensing originated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), so the name. There are only a few restrictions set forward in this license. MIT license is also very much comparable with other licenses.
To summarise MIT is license is just like saying you can do anything with my code but just keep me attributed also i am not liable if something goes wrong.
The literature of the license is as follows

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.

d. Creative Commons

This license allows free distribution of otherwise copyrighted work. This license comes handy, when you, the author wants to give others the right to share, use and build upon your work. The simple explanations of different 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 licenses 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.

All the CC license grant a baseline rights to distribute the copyrighted work worldwide for non-commercial purposes, and without modification. The details of each of these licenses depend on the version, and comprises a selection out of four conditions:
Attribution (BY)
Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits (attribution) in the manner specified by these.
View license deed View legal code
Share-alike (SA)
Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical ("not more restrictive") to the license that governs the original work. Without share-alike, derivative works might be sublicensed with compatible but more restrictive license clauses, e.g. CC BY to CC BY-NC.)
View license deed View legal code
Non-commercial (NC)
(NC) Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only for non-commercial purposes.
View license deed View legal code
No Derivative Works (ND)
Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works and remixes based on it.
View license deed View legal code
Creative commons license summary slide (credits:wikipedia)

e. Dissemination of My Work

The projects i did in fab academy is creative work and i am choosing the Creative commons -Atrribution (BY)- NonCommercial (NC)- SahreAlikie (SA) license for all my works under fab academy 2017

I choose this license because this lets me share my code and also does not allow commercial use of my files. I have a few design and code which i have commercial interest on. This i think this is the best license which lets me share my code as well as protect my commercial interests on my works.

f. Future development plans

I have plans to further develop the project and make it into a full fledged machine. I will be continuing the development beyond the academy. This is actually a learning process , i will further use these insights to make more CNCs in future. All my project files are shared within my archive. Anybody interest to use them in their work or use them to create their own cnc are welcome. Though i have commercial interests in CNC machines i am not planning to make this a commercial one. I will use this as a baseline machine and will build upon it improving the functionalities and make a commercial machine.

Final Project Documentation
Project Video
Project poster

g. Summary

• Learned about different licenses and choose one for my academy works
• Made the final project video and poster and linked them here
• Developed a plan for future development of my final project

---