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My talk at the Open Hardware Summit 2010, NY Academy of Sciences.
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john wilbanksvp for science, creative commons
why do open hardware?
Innovation as a system’s capacity to produce unexpected results.
- zittrain
(thanks, ayah)
#1.
NOSHW: industrial ways of protecting inventions…
NOSHWproblem a: incrementalism.
NOSHWproblem b: artificial scarcity.
NOSHWproblem c: thickets.
source: CAMBIA Patent Lens
even if you want to share, it’s hard.
#2.
OSHW: borrowing “open” and “source”
Text
Linux
source: Larry Ewing
http://wikipedia.org
starting in “manufacturing”
3.
OSHW is a commons(but maybe not the kind you think)
there is no single “commons”
public domainpatent commons
open source softwarefree culture
global NGO / non profit organizationpublic good, by private agreement.
“some rights reserved”
beyond the copyright…
first contact with Makers
http://www.synthesis.cc/2010/03/garage-biology-in-silicon-valley.html
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/patent_tools_public_discussion
makeusesell
field of use
revenue
geography
OSHW…
copyright?patent?
trade secret?trademark?sui generis?
documentation & websiteeducational materialsembedded art, A/V, & textblueprints, layouts, and “mask works”
CC licenses for:
registration, costs, non-enablement…
not a lot of patent commons
breaking our habits.
http://creativecommons.orghttp://sciencecommons.org
http://bit.ly/wilbanks@wilbanks