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THURSDAY, 5 JULY 2012
After Creative Commons, here's Open Product
Thanks to a tweet from the excellent Dr Nicola Searle (best known in IP circles as the Katonomist), here's news of a development that must be seen as an inevitable consequence of the Creative Commons movement in copyright -- it's called Open Product. As its website explains,
This blogger would dearly like to hear from anyone who is either offering or taking an Open Product licence. In light of a recent controversy as to whether Creative Commons is a suitable vehicle for the monetarisation of copyright works (here and here), it will be good to see how designers get from non-commercial licensing to a situation in which they can pay to put a scrap of food on their plates. Posted by: Blog Administrator @ 11.52
Tags: Open Product licences,
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After Creative Commons, here's Open Product
"The Open Product License (openproduct.cc) offers a license platform to help designers share and collaborate on product designs which are not intended for commercial exploitation, using a simple registry to link real products to online documentation".There are two types of licence:
"The Open Product License comes in two basic flavours: Public Domain or Non-commercial ShareAlike Attribution. In the first case, anyone can do anything with your design. In the second case, the use of your design must be non-commercial, attributed to you and available to share alike".What can licensees expect to do under an Open Product licence?
"... users can produce designs and add data tags that link to the online product info. You can modify the design and upload your versions too. Remix designs to add your own ideas and share the finished product with the community".There's not a great deal of information about the folk behind Open Product. The website says:
"We’re based at the Ravensbourne Incubator Programme in Greenwich. Drop in for a conversation about Open Product".From the .cc top level domain, one might infer that Open Product was based in a place called Greenwich in the Cocos Islands which, being an Australian territory, might opt for the English spelling of 'programme' over the American one. Further investigation leads however to Greenwich, London. Details of the Ravensbourne Incubator can be found here.
This blogger would dearly like to hear from anyone who is either offering or taking an Open Product licence. In light of a recent controversy as to whether Creative Commons is a suitable vehicle for the monetarisation of copyright works (here and here), it will be good to see how designers get from non-commercial licensing to a situation in which they can pay to put a scrap of food on their plates. Posted by: Blog Administrator @ 11.52
Tags: Open Product licences,
Perm-A-Link: https://www.marques.org/blogs/class99?XID=BHA359
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