About the Class

In today‘s class we were guided through different ways of generating income and scaling a solution into a business. We talked about how that works in conjunction with open source projects and how these licenses differ.

Final project and open sourcing

For our final project we are dealing with multiple levels of content and copyrighting. We have on one hand hardware & fabrication files, we have software code for the interactive installations and machine-to-machine communication and finally we do have some sounds & visuals which are the core of our experience and are in essence, artistic works. Therefore it is important to distinguish between these respective levels of content and copyrighting, because we don‘t want to sweepingly open source everything or, even worse, close everything by default. Thus, while the fabrication files and the general Codename will be biblisches and shared under ‚CC by‘ license, our individual artistic works are included in a closed copyright.

Further Links

Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income
invention
  research, development
     legacy
  ready-fire-aim
     ready, fire, aim, aim
  traffic
     fire, ready, fire, aim
  ecosystems
  Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
     gender, race, ...

intellectual property
  patents
     types
        utility (20 years from filing)
        design (15 years from grant)
     search
     disclosure
        private
        public
           US: 1 year to file
           most international: can't file
        defensive
     provisional
        1 year to convert
        included in term
     full
        becomes public
        teaching
        specification, claims
        types
           composition
           method
           apparatus
           manufacture
     filing
     examination
        novel, non-obvious, useful
        (im)possibility
           faster than light, free energy
        response time
        restrictions, divisionals
        genes, business processes, software
     Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
        nationalization
        EPO
     precedence
        first to file vs first to invent
     maintenance
     litigation
        defense
        identify infringement
        barriers to infringement
        trolls, NPEs, submarines
     ~ $100, $1k, $10k, $100k
     investors
  copyrights
     original works of authorship
     designs, software, circuits, mask works
     reproduce, modify, distribute, perform, display
     secured on creation
     notice of copyright
     registration
     lifetime + 70 years
     clean room
     fair, prior use
     licenses
        open-source vs free
        Creative Commons
        GPL
        LGPL
        BSD
        MIT/X11
        Apache
        fab
     enforcement
     relicensing
  trademarks
     establishment
     registration
     protection

income
  motivations
     financial
     impact
     social
  sources
     products
     kits
     consumables
     licenses
     advertising
     platforms
     infrastructure
     services
        operation
        consumption
        customization
        education
        entertainment
        impact
        research
     pain
     pushing on strings
  types
     for-profit
        sole proprietor
        partnership
        limited liability company (LLC)
        employee ownership trust
        corporation
     non-profit
        501(c)(3)
     hybrid
     dual, multiple bottom line
     barter, alternate currencies
  funding
     rounds
     VC
     incubator
     angel
     friends & family
     crowdsource
     loan
     purchase commitment
     bootstrap
  lifecycle
     (failure of) business plan
     (need for) management team
     (problems in) scaling
     (pressure for) exit
     (limitations of) founders

accelerator/incubator/manufacturer
  PCH, Highway 1
  Flextronics, Flex
  Dragon, Bolt
  SEEED, HAX
  Factory For All
  HWTrek
  Launchpad
  NRTL, UL, CE, GDPR
  Jobs, Wikifactory, Fab Lab Made, ...

assignment
  develop a plan for dissemination of your final project
  prepare drafts of your summary slide (presentation.png, 1920x1080)
     and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~10 MB)
     and put them in your root directory