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Invention, Intellectual Property & Income

Invention, Intellectual Property & Income

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this assignment is to develop a plan for dissemination of our final project.
We should also look at possible licensing models to share our work.


In this we week we have to choose if we want to register our project with a patent or a license.
The Difference Between Copyright and Patent. Patents refer to an invention, whereas copyrights refer to the expression of an idea, such as an artistic work.

I don`t think my project is a patent. My project could be replicated in any Fablab and by anyone
by following certain steps .

Copyrights are secured for creation, you don't need to file for a copyright.Copyrights have commercial value in licensing your work.
Putting a copyright on your work will determine how people can use it and how you can benefit from it.

Some of the common licenses

MIT license
An MIT license has very limited restriction over reuse of the code. It is also compatible with many of the existing commonly used licenses like GPL
and many other copyleft licenses. The license comes under the category of permissive licenses, which defined as "lets people do anything they want
with your code as long as they provide attribution back to you and don't hold you liable."

MIT license not suitable for me for my work, because it only provides limited restrictions on reuse and anyone could do
whatever with my work provided they keep the copyright license and can commercialize.


GNU
GNU General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software.
This license is more for software and in my project I don`t need to protect the software.


Creative Commons
It is maintained by a non-profit organization based out of America. It provide the option to legally distribute and give the work to the public.
There are different flavors which the content creator can choose and make the license. I have discussed what I usually give under CC licensing.

The CC is very commonly used in licensing creative contents and you can see it around the web in many places (eg wikipedia).
CC is inspired from commons ideology. The licenses is generally known as (some right reserved) similar to the ( All rights reserved ) of copy right.



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 licensor 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.




The licenses which fit the bill is Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-NC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.
Because I have no commercial interests, but I also don't want anyone using my work commercially without my permission.
I want people who are interested, to continue and improve my work and share it with others


Income
for Income sources, I have no commercial interests as of now. My project will be a starting point for me in other areas of ferrofluid experiments
that I want to explore.


Future opportunities

The project in its current state is exploring a form of artistic visualisation and display that's based on a technical development.
The first requirement for that would be to perfect the technical aspect of it, like the electronic circuits and the electromagnets.
Afterwards , the door is open to all sorts of creative expression using this technology.
Just like any tool, the creator would sometimes be surprised by what the users would make with the technology!!