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

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My understanding of why that approach never got traction is that there
is *no* way for you to guarantee your customers or creators of
derivative works that you won't change your mind and sue everyone in a
month or two.

Why that problem doesn't appear wit hconventional copyright, I don't know.

On 02/27/2013 07:04 PM, John Griessen wrote:
> 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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