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Principle

Help a creator to decide what licenses is the most adapted to his project based on the nature of his project, his strategical goal but also his political ideal.

Existing solutions

• generalist
  • copyright
    • 6.912 Introduction to Copyright Law by Keith Winstein, MIT OpenCourseWare
  • copyleft
  • public domain
  • trademark
  • Authors' rights
• products / processes
  • patent
• content
  • Artistic license
    • http://artlibre.org
  • Fair use
  • FDL
  • CCs
  • CC0
• services
  • Affero GPL
• software
  • GPL, LGPL, BSD, WTFPL, Open Source, eGPL, MIT License, CDDL, ...
• hardware
  • TAPR Open Hardware License
  • Open Source Hardware (OSHW) definition
  • CERNOHL CERN Open Hardware Licence

Impact on creativity, innovation and consequent strategies

• to write...
• inspire with FB_Wiki:AutoDebate/Apple

Alternatives to avoid (buyer) or maintain (vendor) dependency

• branding
• secrecy
• lock-in strategy
  • including social network usage

Overall there seem to be a perpetual arms race between certain creative work exploiters (which may not be the actual author but just actors down the chain of value) and part the community at large (consider Drive for more details on arms races).

To do

• find a licenses "expert system" dedicated to pedagogically supported decision system
  • http://creativecommons.org/choose/
• integrate previous notes
  • Information feudalism: who owns the knowledge economy? by Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite, Earthscan 2002
  • The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig, Random House 2001
  • Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian, Harvard Business Press 1998
• integrate patent search engines and open innovation websites from the internal dashboard
• consider a study on the impact of a networked information world, international law and licensing
• EFF intellectual property page
• historical background
  • Wikipedia:Scire facias (from the Latin meaning "to know the causes")
    • "created in 1285 during the 13th year of the reign of Edward I by the English Parliament in the Second Statute of Westminster."
  • Wikipedia:History of patent law
    • "generally considered to have started in Italy with a Venetian Statute of 1474 which was issued by the Republic of Venice"
  • Wikipedia:History of copyright law
    • "dates back 300 years, when the British parliament enacted the first copyright statute, the Copyright Act 1709, also known as Statute of Anne."
  • Wikipedia:First to file and first to invent
• Wikipedia:License compatibility
  • find visualization
• Patentability and Democracy in Europe at Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII)
• legal research from top university departments
  • recommended by Felipe
    • pablo ortellado
      • Gpopai Grupo de Pesquisa em Políticas Públicas para o Acesso à Informação tem sede na Universidade de São Paulo
    • Jhessica Reia http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/fcrw/sites/fcrw/images/Reia_Free_Culture_2009_-_Harvard.pdf
    • http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/fcrw/
  • Stanford, the #1 CS/IT producer in the world
• Defensive patent pools proposal to reduce the harm of software patents to a specific group of software developers.
  • Wikipedia:Defensive Patent License
• International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSS L. Rev.)
• http://www.kalix.ch/
  • A qui est destiné le système Kalix?
    • A tout entrepreneur européen ayant une activité professionnelle légale en Suisse
• license "recognition"
  • eventually with diff from famous licenses plates (e.g. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ )
  • easily copy/paste find
    • locate consequences
• consider re-organizing by date and "forking-reason"
  • see FB_Wiki:Tools/SemanticWeb#Requests
• Veni, Vidi, Libri promouvoir les licences libres ainsi que de faciliter le passage de créations sous licence libre.
• CodeX: Stanford Center for Computers and Law