Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

Assignment

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

How should I license my project?

In this week I needed to learn how the license and patent thing works to decide how I will disseminate my project. From the beginning I was not going to get any license or patent for my final project. It´s a Fab Academy final project and it´s open source and people should be able to make their own version of it if they want.

So since I learned to make this project in an open source way I think it’s fair to share my project in the same way. Then I started to read some options of open source options, and for now I would like to keep it licensed by Creative Commons:

Creative Commons: “If you want to give people the right to share, use, and even build upon a work you’ve created, you should consider publishing it under a Creative Commons license. CC gives you flexibility (for example, you can choose to allow only non-commercial uses) and protects the people who use your work, so they don’t have to worry about copyright infringement, as long as they abide by the conditions you have specified.” (http://creativecommons.org/about)

They have different categories of license and for my project I choose:

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Since I am Fab Lab manager I want to help others to make all kinds of projects and not be too occupied in my own projects. If I would find some cooperator that can give strong input for further design of the instrument I would love to take this further, but right now I am not thinking about it. Until then I just enjoy playing it on my own or with other musicians.