[Open Design] Legal aspects of Open Design

[Bram Geenen]

I won't be able to bring in any real legal understanding, but will
definitely follow the discussion, very interesting!

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On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:07 PM, t. <123456tom at mail.com> wrote:

> Count me in!
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> We exchanged a few ideas on github, did you see them?
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> Hi all,
> I would like to start a collaborative document to address the legal aspects
> of Open HW / Open Design, namely:
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> Extent of protection:
> - what is protected (by default) under copyright law
> - what is protectable under design rights
> - what is protectable under patent law
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> Licensing:
> - how can we make a design Open ?
> - do current licensing schemes (such as Creative Commons) apply to design
> rights ?
> - how can we protect the paternity for automatically-generated works ?
> (e.g. produced by software)
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> and many other questions that will come to my mind later on  :)
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> If anyone has any other questions and/or is interested in joining this
> endeavor, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me !
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