# මොකද්ද මේ කොපිරයිට්? All rights reserved?
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### 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
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### Next hour
- Some definitions
- Designer as a human and part of the culture
- A discussion on culture and copyright
- Introducing some tools and resources
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### 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
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### How I got into this stuff
- Why care?
- Story of Inkscape
- Fonts
- How I met the creators of Fontlab
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# PART 1
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### Your rights as a creator
- Intelectual property
- Copyrights
- Licensing
- Royalty
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### Intelectual property
- Patents
- Trademarks
- Industrial designs
- Recipes
- Copyright
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### Copyright
The right to;
- make copies
- use
- distribute
- make changes
- distribute changed versions
- publish
- reproduce
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### Licensing
A license or licence is an official permission or a permit to do, use, or own something.
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### Licensing
Granting the rights to;
- make copies
- use
- distribute
- make changes
- distribute changed versions
- publish
- reproduce
Under different conditions.
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### Examples of font licensing
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https://djr.com/license/
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https://www.rosettatype.com/licence
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# PART 2
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## All Creative Work Is Derivative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=jcvd5JZkUXY
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http://questioncopyright.org/promise
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## Design ethics and culture
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## How copyright and 'All rights reserved' works
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# PART 2
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### 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)
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### Copyleft
Exploiting copyright laws for a better society
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### Creative Commons
- Inspierd by Free Software Movement
- Open culture
- read/write
- Choosing Creative Commons Licenses
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### Examples
- Free Music Archive
- Unsplash
- OpenClipart
- LibreStock
- fontlibrary.org
- StoryVille
- Pepper and Carrot
- Cosmos Laundromat
- OpenStreetMaps
- Wikipedia
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### Why Sri Lanka?
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### Why Sri Lanka?
- Market size
- Infrastrucutre
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### Why you?
- Good for the portfolio
- Exposure
- Clients will notice you and hire
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## Why you?
- Good for the portfolio
- Exposure
- Clients will notice you and hire
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## Why you?
- Good for the portfolio
- Exposure
- Clients will notice you and hire
- None of the above ;)
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### Your value as a creator
Value = Ownership
Ownership = Money
Money = Value
Value is shifting from 'product' to 'reputation.'
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# PART 3
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### Libre Graphics Tools
- Real creative freedome
- No Software lockup
- No format lockup
- No risk or really being locked up!
- Free!
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### No risk or really being locked up!
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### How to dive into this?
- libregraphics.github.io
- libre.graphics
- Start a Creative Commons chapter
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### Thanks!
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