[Discuss] "ask a lawyer" video open-source hardware, trademarks and more (and altium interview coming up)

[phillip torrone]

> On Mar 16, 2017, at 4:30 PM, Jeffrey Warren <jeff at publiclab.org> wrote:
> Hi, just want to say I love the "ask a lawyer" idea. Kudos!

thank you!

we hope and plan to do this again and more.

the goal with our videos is to make sure the internet isn't just a box of wires, we want to take time help the community with experts and topics we would have liked to see and hear when were getting started, or even now, or in the future. cat videos are great, we make those too, we also want to have educational videos with important topics for the open-source and open-source hardware community.

we're often told that there isn't an audience for this, there is compelling evidence to the contrary.

fun side story, the creative commons lawyer met with a bunch of us a long time ago and that is where the open source hardware definition was started.

email is below :)

oddly enough, or not... it was 7 years ago to the day!
--Wednesday March 17th, 2010---

> Sometimes I've heard different things from different lawyers, especially where the law isn't clear or hasn't been applied to a new concept (and had time to set some precedents and such). Curious on your thoughts, and maybe that's a question for a lawyer itself?

good question for a lawyer for sure :)

cheers,
pt

> Title: Open Hardware Workshop
> Date: Wednesday March 17th, 2010
> Time: 1:30 pm till 7pm
> Location: Eyebeam center for Art and Technology
> Address: 540 West 21st street, NY 
> Organized/Led by: John Wilbanks (VP Science, Creative Commons), Thinh Nguyen (Legal Counsel, Creative Commons) , Ayah Bdeir (senior fellow, Eyebeam)
> In collaboration with: Eyebeam, Ted Ullrich
> 
> Background:
> I have been working closely with Creative Commons (CC) thinking about open source hardware, namely John Wilbanks, VP of Science at CC. CC is working on an open patent licensing infrastructure (to be their second major offering, alongside their copyright licenses) and is also exploring ways to use the infrastructure in certain application spaces.
> As you know, open sourcing hardware is non-trivial, and while there's been a lot of talk it, no one seems to have the complete right solution.
> 
> Topic:
> Open hardware is a real priority for Creative Commons, alongside free software and rare diseases, and they are eager to see what it would take to create a useful standard for open sourcing hardware and deal with the restrictions that hardware imposes. CC is posting pieces of the infrastructure for public comment in the coming weeks, and will be releasing the final basic tools later this year, but they are interested in presenting it and discussing it with a select group of people working in OS hardware.
> 
> Agenda:
> The event was meant to be held in the summer, but is being moved up to take advantage of the Arduino workshop attendees. The workshop will start with a teaching session, led by John and Tinh,  on IP and Open Source from CC's perspective and how it relates to open hardware. We will then have a break, then a facilitated interactive discussion and whiteboard exercise with the group in which we get everyone brainstorming. The brainstorm session will cover a lot of the topics discussed in the teaching session, so attendees should plan to be present for both. The workshop will end with an informal cheese and wine wrap-up sponsored by Creative Commons.
> 
> Note:
> This is not a public event and is meant to be kept small. However, please do let us know if there are other people we should invite. 
> We hope you will be able to join us!
> 
> John and Ayah



> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 4:26 PM, phillip torrone <pt at adafruit.com> wrote:
> ok! here's some stuff.
> 
> 1) we have a video with real live lawyers about patents, open source and making a "maker business"
> 
> ASK A LAWYER! Marty Schwimmer & Jordan Garner @trademarkblog @jordangarneresq @LeasonEllis @adafruit
> https://youtu.be/RSH5OQQkI-g
> 
> 2) we are interviewing altium next week and even dave jones is asking questions, ideally hackaday could post this and we'll add the hackaday questions too.
> 
> post with questions and more:
> https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/03/15/interview-with-altium-32117-430pm-et-altium-adafruit-adafruit
> 
> Interview with Altium! 3/21/17 4:30pm ET @altium @adafruit #adafruit LIVE
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkD0fKEcUYY
> 
> dave's questions:
> https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/03/15/interview-with-altium-32117-430pm-et-altium-adafruit-adafruit/#comment-311507
> 
> for the open-source hardware folks here on the list, what questions / suggestions to you have for altium?
> 
> in the past we worked with EAGLE to do an XML export with the help and smarts from lenore and windell of EMSL, bunnie uses altium and has some good suggestions/questions as well! you can send them to me or post up in the comments of our blog post.
> 
> we're gonna see if they can do a free maker version, and of course ask to make the tool open source, but that's unlikely to happen. doesn't hurt for all of us to ask though!
> 
> cheers,
> pt
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