Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

Invention:

My final project together with Alex Garcia, the 3D Zoetrope, is not an original creation, since this optical mechanical device exists since the XIX Century. Although it isn’t an innovation in terms of mechanism it deals with a different way of “creating an illusion of movement” and making it accessible. The idea of creating a container that hides an animation is key when thinking about this 3D Zoetrope as a way of teaching the concepts of persistence of vision while watching moving objects. Because me and Alex Garcia are usually giving workshops in FabLabs the idea of creating some device where the knowledge of animation can be learned and also being thus able to be replicate is really essential.

Intellectual Property:

The 3D Zoetrope that me and Alex Garcia created will be shared and can be used to built upon or it can be developed in any form. We chose the “Creative commoms Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)” as the license for our final project. This license allows the project to be copied and redistributed in any medium or format. It also allows it to be adapted by remixed, transformed and built upon. This license forbid the commercial use of the project and requests an attribution when referring to it. It is not our idea to sell it but to use it as a device that will be a tool for learning the concepts of animation.

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

Before choosing creative commons we also were interested about the MIT License that permits (under the license and copyright notice):

• Commercial Use
• Distribution
• Modification
• Private Use

The reason why we decided to pick the Creative Commons license is because it forbid the commercial use of the project making it clear that its use should remain open source.

Income:

To continue developing the 3D Zoetrope after the FabAcademy ends. Me and Alex Garcia are interested to also upload the documentation of the project in other online repositories like Designoteca.com and FabLabs.io. We also intend to develop a workshop based on teaching children of low income communities to learn about animation using our 3D Zoetrope as a way of accessing it. For that we will invite Nori Figueiredo, an artist and also an art director to help us translating important theoretical concepts of the Animation as something easy and fun to learn by the kids. We intend to encourage people that come to FabLabs to create their own set of 3D models to be animated on the platform and upload the efforts in the same repository where one can download the project of the device.

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