Intellectual property readings

For now this is just a harsh compilation of resources with no particular order.

Opinion

Why "non-commercial" is a "non-good" idea for your project

Sustainable creativity in a world without copyright

Toward Copyleft Equality for All

As the open source world has grown, so have concerns about the context in which openly licensed items are used.

Open Design. It is the way - on Hackaday

When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies

Is Prusa going closed source? Some info on this Prusa blog post: The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023 and a couple of replys from Stargirl Flowers and Michael Weinberg

Guides / compilations / selector tools

Write Free Software site

Understanding legal implications of open source

License compilation

License Selector by EU Commision

Legal / cases

The legal side of open source

Youtube-dl DMCA

Makerbot 3D Printers

Brute-Forced Copyrighting: Liberating all the melodies

Multimeters without a country: Flukes broad trademark bans yellow multimeter imports

GitHub Copilot and open source laundering
Github's copilot code laundering but with music : https://fairuseify.telnet.asia/

Infrigement in AI Art

Github Copilot Investigation

Are Patent Claims Coming For Your WS2812?

Information

Multi-licensing wikipedia article

Microsoft repo installed on all Raspberry Pi’s

Idea - Expression of idea Distinction

OSHWA Certification API

CERN License 2.0

Web Sites

Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom. We defend the rights of all software users. …

GNU Operating System

GNU is an operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom. …

Creative Commons

CC is an international nonprofit organization that empowers people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture …

Public Money - Public Code

Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software? …

Books
La Catedral y el Bazar
Eric S. Raymond
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Michael A. Heller, James Salzman
La ética del hacker y el espíritu de la era de la información
Pekka Himanen
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