Week 18, Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income
This week assignment tasks are
a) develop a plan for dissemination of the final project
b) prepare a summary slide (presentation.png, 1280x1024) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, less than 10 MB in root directory
I got the inspiration after I stumbled upon these two website.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-water-system-to-wet-your-plant/ and
https://arduinodiy.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/garduino-an-arduino-sort-of-for-your-garden/
It was using an Arduino Uno to run the system. The source code can be found here on this website below.
The system was designed to run the automatic plant watering via a webserver. I think it is too complicated for me to handle at my current competency level. Think I will just borrow the idea, minus the Arduino and replace it with an Attiny85.
Since the idea was from Instructables.com and they have a tab named “I Made It! “, I gathered I wouldn’t be infringing any copyrights or such. Anyways it’s for my own use and there are no commercial benefits as far as I can see. I want to make it for own use and not commercialized it.
I came across this site that talks about type of copyrights and how they workes. Copyrights .
The most commonly used options are as follows:
All Rights Reserved
The copyright holder retains all the rights provided by copyright law, such as distribution, performance, and creation of their work. In some ways, you have total control over your story, but since copyright doesn’t give you a complete monopoly, others can still use your story in certain ways, by including short excerpts in reviews and recs, creating fan art or covers for you, etc.
Public Domain
It’s also known as “No rights reserved”. Technically, putting a work in the public domain in most countries can be a complicated process, but if you select this option, you’re telling everyone that they can use your story for any purpose; they can print it and sell it, they can make a movie out of it, anything they want. If you select this option, you relinquish all copyrights that you hold in the story.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons has shared the text of a number of types of copyright licenses. If you select one, you reserve some of the right to your story, but you’re also giving the general public some licenses, like the right to translate your story, or make a film using your dialogue, or even print it to sell at a fan con. Individuals wanting to collaborate with a writer must go through this route.
There are several Creative Commons licenses to suit your needs:
Attribution [CC BY]: others can use and distribute your work, but they must attribute the work to you
Share Alike [CC BY-SA]: others can use your work, but whatever they use it for must be shared too
No Derivative [CC BY-ND]: your work can be used, word for word, but you can’t remix or change it
Non Commercial [CC BY-NC]: people can use your work, but can’t make money from it
For more information on Creative Commons copyright options, please visit: Creative Commons
My choice of licensing
I would select the "Non Commercial [CC BY-NC]" type of policy because Fablab is a place for people to freely share information, skills, knowledge and experiences. I also hope it can further developed and used in agriculture places where water supply were controlled. It would be able to indicate where and when water is needed. In this way it water save up and monitored yet crops can still be produced. It should be non-profit so that more society can benefit from its implementation.
It can be disseminate through Instructables or NGO organization or Engineers without borders. It could be start with a small community to grow crops to start off with.