DiDIY Rights and Obligations (Legal)

In July 2015 we ran a co-design workshop with the whole DiDIY team to collaboratively explore the main issues to explore in this wide field. We have made a list of the identified challenges. These will be further developed in memos, papers, book chapters and will be present in the final report delivered to the EC. Here follows the current list and we welcome you to share any relevant cases along these lines with us (see at the bottom):

 

• Product liability

• medical DIY of self-printed organs

• vehicle safety regulations

• Liability when injuries occur when using designs, machines, spaces from others

• DIY vs contracting a service

• member-based spaces and tools

• consumerism vs. prosumers / DIY

 

• commons based networks vs private networks

• open standard protocols

• open design / open source hardware

• Free Software and Open Source Software → What is it? What business models?

• Open Data

 

• Ownership and licensing, Intellectual monopolies

• Copyrights, design rights, patents and trademarks

• Exemptions / fair use

• Main differences between different national legislations.

• Digital Commons refer to expressions or resources in digital format that are shared by and for the community. Typically a «license» is used. We can distinguish between «free», «open»  and «closed» licenses. Copyleft licensing and virality: how does it work in the physical world?

                                   

• for personal, non-commercial use

• when repairing your own product

• when uploading CAD files

• when downloading CAD files

 

• control of personal data

• full disclosure: the threat of unraveling privacy in the signalling economy

• anonymity

 

• the end of gun control?

• dangers of «dangerous information»

 

• The ethics of sharing and helping others (solidarity)

• The reputation economy (honesty, skills)

• Equality in a network society (equity)

• No need to ask for permission (free-as-in-freedom, autonomy)

 

• What are SmartContracts and how can they be used in the context of Digital DIY?

• What legal challenges are rising and can be expected?

• What are Distributed Collaborative Organisations (DCOs) and how can they be seen in the context of Digital DIY?

• What legal challenges can be expected?

 

• aviation rules

• liability