Hi All
This might be of interest to some of you, it gives a general overview:
http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2017/01/article_0006.html
No mention of open licensing of course, but good background reading.
Jenny
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Hi Jenny…I love 3 printing but this article is boringly old. We already had these discussions back in 2012 see the awesome http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/ Maybe its the jetlag but why is WIPO publishing this now !?
I suggest reading Michael weinbergs article instead:
public knowledge https://www.publicknowledge.org/files/docs/3DPrintingPaperPublicKnowledge.pdf
One from 2013 that I feel is not circulated enough is this article from Eli Greenbaum that gives a very good overview of emerging hardware licenses and their problems and proposes a new license for digital fabrication (a modified Apache license). This license allows creators to ensure a mark is kept in their design files when shared and modified so that attribution is embedded into the hardware or “clones” are more easily identifiable.