OSHW wilbanks

john wilbanksvp for science, creative commons

why do open hardware?

Innovation as a system’s capacity to produce unexpectedresults.
- 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”

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 commonsopen source softwarefree culture

public good, by private agreement.
“some rights reserved”
global NGO / non profit organization

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

make
use
sell
field of use
revenue
geography

OSHW…copyright?patent?trade secret?trademark?sui generis?

CC licenses for:
documentation & websiteeducational materialsembedded art, A/V, & textblueprints, layouts, and “mask works”

registration, costs, non-enablement…not a lot of patent commons

breaking our habits.

http://creativecommons.orghttp://sciencecommons.orghttp://bit.ly/wilbanks@wilbanks

by john wilbanks