COPYRIGHT

Released: 31.05.2017

Week18: invention, intellectual property, and income


Requirments
develop a plan for dissemination of your final project

Experience

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY


The MIT License (MIT):
Permission is 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 Fab Lab license:
"This work may be reproduced, modified, distributed, performed, and displayed for any purpose, but must acknowledge "project name". Copyright is retained and must be preserved. The work is provided as is; no warranty is provided, and users accept all liability." The BSD license: Actively involved in Open Source community-building, education, and public advocacy to promote awareness and the importance of non-proprietary software. Their mission: Open source enables a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is higher quality, better reliability, greater flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.


GPL (General Public License):
It states: "The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too. When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things. To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights or asking you to surrender the rights. Therefore, you have certain responsibilities if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it: responsibilities to respect the freedom of others. For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must pass on to the recipients the same freedoms that you received. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights."

Apache License:
Provides a foundation for open, collaborative software development projects by supplying hardware, communication, and business infrastructure Creates an independent legal entity to which companies and individuals can donate resources and be assured that those resources will be used for the public benefit. Provides a means for individual volunteers to be sheltered from legal suits directed at the Foundation's projects. Protects the 'Apache' brand, as applied to its software products, from being abused by other organizations.


Creative Commons:
Creative Commons helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world — unlocking the full potential of the internet to drive a new era of development, growth and productivity. "The work may be reproduced, modified, distributed, performed, and displayed for any purpose, but must acknowledge the "project name". Copyright is retained and must be preserved. The work is provided as is; no warranty is provided, and users accept all liability."


INVENTION


The Polybots is a revolutionary project in electronics, digital design and architecture. The swarms concept is a new paradigm in computation design where you can have a bunch of small robots to get a specific job done using simple components such as IR sensors, phototransistors, leds, etc... The target of this project is to challenge and stimulate designers to go beyond swarms communication and use them for more complex stuff that could be used in building sites or architectural proposals.


INCOME


I intend to share the electrical circuits , 3D design and source code of the project under a "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International" licence. This is a common liecense model used by several individuals allowing others to freely use, modifiy, add value to the orginal design and citing the original work.

This project could be developed through research in architecture and technology in places such as ZHU, ITKE or CITA. A lot of futuristic proposals are going around this direction, towards robotics whether it is automation and programming or design and fabrication but it is taking over in almost all markets and fields related to design and architecture.
An example on that topic is the project by IAAC 'terraPerforma' that explores the concept of robotically 3D printing Performative Architecture.

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

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