Re: [DIYbio] Fwd: 3D printing & intellectual property rights - So why are we bothering with GPL,CC etc licenses?

On 02/27/2013 12:35 PM, Cathal Garvey wrote:
> the
> unfortunate reality is that without a default protection such as
> Copyright, many will choose to enforce Patents upon their work,
> ruining the possibility of a healthy commons even further.

Unless you patent it and then license it open for free use.
That's what it will likely take to free publish any hardware that actually
makes much value to the mainstream buyers, as I take it from the lawyers.
The worldwide legal structures
are about money==property assessments and licenses and contracts on that.
So, ownership by patent is the only path that fits in the current legal structure
AFAICT... Maybe we should ask this of Ackerman, the lawyer who wrote the TAPR license...

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