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["Roy Mohan Shearer" <0100105S AT student.gla.ac.uk>]

Dear all,

I am a student of Product Design Engineering at the Glasgow School of Art. I 
have been interested in the CC license for a while and how its philosophy 
might be applied to my area of work.

Can the CC license be applied to design documentation, ie that which 
describes or specifies the production of a physical object? Does it only 
apply to digital data? Could it be applied to printed material?

Can anyone see problems with this in principal? the intellectual property of 
product design can be protected in a few different ways already: Patents, 
design copyrights etc. however there is no provision that I know of for 
sharing that intellectual property while retaining such features as 
attribution, sharing alike and non-commercial use (hence my interst in the CC 
license).

best regards,


Roy Shearer - royshearer AT email.com

Undergraduate Product Design Engineer (Year 5)
Glasgow School of Art/University of Glasgow

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