# මොකද්ද මේ කොපිරයිට්? All rights reserved? --- ### Pathum Egodawatta - HanthanaOS community - Fontforge project, TruFont project, Unified Font Repository - Consultancy on font licensing and Open sourcing fonts - Maintaining a few open source font projects - Libre Graphics Meeting 2020 --- ### Next hour - Some definitions - Designer as a human and part of the culture - A discussion on culture and copyright - Introducing some tools and resources --- ![](http://www.tipucrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Universal-Keygen-Generator-.jpg) --- ![](https://i.imgur.com/yCqS8aP.jpg) --- ### Next hour - PART 1 - Some definitions - Designer as a human and part of the culture - A discussion on culture and copyright - PART 2: Open Culture - PART 3: Tools and resources --- ### How I got into this stuff - Why care? - Story of Inkscape - Fonts - How I met the creators of Fontlab --- # PART 1 --- ### Your rights as a creator - Intelectual property - Copyrights - Licensing - Royalty --- ### Intelectual property - Patents - Trademarks - Industrial designs - Recipes - Copyright --- ### Copyright The right to; - make copies - use - distribute - make changes - distribute changed versions - publish - reproduce --- ### Licensing A license or licence is an official permission or a permit to do, use, or own something. --- ### Licensing Granting the rights to; - make copies - use - distribute - make changes - distribute changed versions - publish - reproduce Under different conditions. --- ### Examples of font licensing --- ![](https://i.imgur.com/NVJEPQ6.png) https://djr.com/license/ --- ![](https://i.imgur.com/kvQYz4w.png) https://www.rosettatype.com/licence --- # PART 2 --- ## All Creative Work Is Derivative https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=jcvd5JZkUXY --- ![](https://i.imgur.com/rOnuguc.png) http://questioncopyright.org/promise --- ## Design ethics and culture --- ## How copyright and 'All rights reserved' works --- # PART 2 --- ### Copyright sucks! - [How Mickey Mouse Destroyed the Public Domain - Adam Conover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiEXgpp37No) - [Copyright is brain damage - Nina Paley](https://youtu.be/XO9FKQAxWZc?t=4m59s) --- ### Copyleft ![](https://i.imgur.com/Q3gSyZm.jpg) Exploiting copyright laws for a better society --- ### Creative Commons - Inspierd by Free Software Movement - Open culture - read/write - Choosing Creative Commons Licenses --- ### Examples - Free Music Archive - Unsplash - OpenClipart - LibreStock - fontlibrary.org - StoryVille - Pepper and Carrot - Cosmos Laundromat - OpenStreetMaps - Wikipedia --- ### Why Sri Lanka? ![](https://i.imgur.com/mCpRqEe.jpg) --- ### Why Sri Lanka? - Market size - Infrastrucutre --- ### Why you? - Good for the portfolio - Exposure - Clients will notice you and hire --- ![](https://i.imgur.com/3292lmF.png) ## Why you? - Good for the portfolio - Exposure - Clients will notice you and hire --- ## Why you? - Good for the portfolio - Exposure - Clients will notice you and hire - None of the above ;) --- ### Your value as a creator Value = Ownership Ownership = Money Money = Value Value is shifting from 'product' to 'reputation.' --- # PART 3 --- ### Libre Graphics Tools - Real creative freedome - No Software lockup - No format lockup - No risk or really being locked up! - Free! --- ### No risk or really being locked up! --- ### How to dive into this? - libregraphics.github.io - libre.graphics - Start a Creative Commons chapter --- ![](https://i.imgur.com/6iUAJBU.png) --- ### Thanks! ---
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