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Part 4—Ari Douglas: Differentiating Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks

Copyright does not apply to hardware or design changes that are utilitarian and do not contain original design ideas. Schematic layout, Verilog, Netlists, layout files, and Gerber files are not copyrightable; therefore, you can’t reliably license these aspects of your project.

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Part 1—Alicia Gibb: The "Must and the May" of Open Source Hardware (OSH) and the OSH Checklist

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Part 2—Discussion: Share-Alike and Hardware Cloning

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Part 3—Ari Douglas: Hardware Licensing and Copyright Explained

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Part 4—Ari Douglas: Differentiating Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks

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