2024
- New Open GLAM Toolkit & Open GLAM Survey from the GLAM-E Lab
- What Does an Open Source Hardware Company Owe The Community When it Walks Away?
- Keep 3D Printers Unlocked (the win! 2023)
- Licensing Deals Between AI Companies and Large Publishers are Probably Bad
- Is There A Coherent Theory of Attributing AI Training Data?
- Make Government-Funded Hardware Open Source by Default
- Licenses are Not Proxies for Openness in AI Models
- Clearing Rights for a 'Non-Infringing' Collection of AI Training Media is Hard
- Carlin AI Lawsuit Against 'Impression with Computer'
2023
- How Explaining Copyright Broke the Spotify Copyright System
- OSHWA Files Brief in Support of Using, Repairing, and Hacking Things You Own
- Powerful ToS Hurt Companies and Lawyers, Not Just Users
- Why Can't You Own an Ebook?
- AQI Sensor
- More on the Shifting State of Open Source Hardware
- Keep 3D Printers Unlocked (2023)
- A(nother) Reply to Josef Průša
- Maybe LLMs Won’t Raise 230 Questions?
- Pioneers of Open Access Report
2022
2021
- Commercialization-as-a-Service - A Missing Layer of Open Hardware?
- Keep 3D Printers Unlocked (the win!)
- Next Wave Openness
- Behold CleverHans.org
- Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source
- HardwareX Integrates OSHWA Certification into Paper Submission Process
- A Second Cambrian Explosion of Open Source Licenses
or
Is it Time For Open Source Lawyers to Have Fun Again? - A Digital Warranty of Habitability - Forcing a Choice on ‘Sellers’ of Digital Goods
- Announcing "Stitching Together a Solution - Lessons from the Open Source Hardware Response to COVID-19"
- OSHW Turns 10
- The Open Hardware Community Responds to COVID-19 Shortages
- A New Ethical Open Source License for Machine Learning from ml5.js?
2020
- Keep 3D Printers Unlocked (the comment)
- (Small) Suggestions for Reforming Copyright
- Creating a Live OSHWA Certification Map
- Open Source Hardware Weather Report 2020
- Announcing the Open Source Hardware Certification API
- Simulating Firefly Flashes with CircuitPython and Neopixels (Now with Classes!)
- Keep 3D Printers Unlocked (the petitions)
- New Met Partnership Shows Open Access Can Coexist With Revenue?
- Simulating Firefly Flashes with CircuitPython and Neopixels
- Preserving Glam3D.org
- I Do Not Understand Why the University of Tennessee is Hyping its 3D Printed Face Shield
- Keep 3D Printers Unlocked
- Unlocking Our Shared Cultural Resources
- Why Glam3D.org is a Website, not a PDF
- The Good Actor/Bad Actor Approaches to Licensing
- (the lack of) Official Guidance and the Maker Response to Covid-19
- New CERN Open Source Hardware Licenses Mark A Major Step Forward
- How We Made the Open Hardware Summit All Virtual in Less Than a Week
- The Smithsonian Goes Open Access
- How Explaining Copyright Broke the YouTube Copyright System
- Easy Public Domain Picture Frame with the Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access API
2019
- Silicon Valley’s Favorite Idea for Encouraging Competition - Data portability sounds promising—but it might not be the regulatory golden goose the private and public sectors hope it is
- The Bust of Nefertiti is Free (With One Strange Caveat)
- Announcing Data Portability and Platform Competition - Is User Data Exported From Facebook Actually Useful to Competitors?
- Announcing the Innovation Policy Colloquium Podcast
- The Greatest Simulated Legal Open Mic Night of the Season - Guaranteed
- Lego's IP Grab Bag
- You Can Tinker with this Conference Badge
- Open hardware for musicians and music lovers
- Why I am Posting a Free Book Chapter About 3D Printing and Orthopaedic Surgery
- Book Chapter - Economic and Regulatory Perspectives on Additive Manufacturing
- Open Source Hardware and the Great Outdoors
- Open Source Hardware is International
- Searchable list of certified open hardware projects
- Creating Map-Based Data Visualizations Is Getting Pretty Easy
- Should Human Rights Concerns Impact Open Source Hardware Events in China?
- Update on the China Summit, Open Hardware Month, and Future Summits
- EU Article 13 is not Compatible with 3D Printing Services
- OSHWA Supports Design Patent Clarity in Amicus Brief
2018
- Cast Courts, 3D Scans, and Mass Dissemination of Museum Collections
- Changes that Elsevier Agreed to in Their Academic Publishing Contract
- Time For Something New
- Victory for Unlocking 3D Printers
- OSHWA Certification 2.0 is Here
- Revoking Certification for ES000001 MOTEDIS XYZ
- OSHWA Certification Logo is Official
- Unlocking 3D Printer Hearing at the US Copyright Office
- Pi Powered MTA Subway Alerts
- Stratasys Opposes Unlocking 3D Printing Petition
- Control LED Lights With A Webpage (ESP8266 Relay)
- Round 4 (!) of Thing 1350837
2017
- Expanding the Rules Around Unlocking 3D Printers
- 3D Printer Jailbreaking Rule Renewed by Copyright Office
- A Quick and Dirty Guide to Open Source Hardware Licensing*
- The Importance of the Shapeways-Valve Partnership
- Expanding What it Means to Unlock 3D Printers
- Unlocking 3D Printers Again
- Round 3 of Thing 1350837
- Shapeways Adds its Voice on Net Neutrality
- Announcing the Winner of the SMK Jewelry Design Contest
- Deadline Extended for SMK Jewelry Contest
- Disclaim and Request: A Way Forward For Creative Commons and 3D Printing?
- The Complicated Relationship Between Creative Commons, Copyright, and 3D Printing
- Regulating DIY Medical Devices
- Display Your Jewelry in the Danish National Gallery
- Shapeways Joins Hundreds of Startups in Support of Net Neutrality
- Safe Harbors Are Important in the EU Too
- Decision in the Cheerleader Uniform Case and a New Test for Copyright
- Can Patents and Open Source Hardware Coexist?
- Trademark and Copyright Safe Harbors (again)
- Mature Tagging on Shapeways
- Is it Better to Over License?
2016
- Blood Coming Out of His Wherever Trump Head Ice Luge
- Open Source Hardware Certification IDs Are Live!
- Cheerleader Uniforms, Shovels as Art, and 3D Printing Copyright
- Announcing the OSHWA Open Source Hardware Certification Program
- An Early Look at How Courts Think About Exporting 3D Printed Gun Files
- The Cost of a Successful Creative Commons and Open Source Software Movement
- Advocating for a Clear Test on Copyright and 3D Printed Objects
- Asking for a Clear Test for Copyright and OSHW
- Shapeways Supports EU Net Neutrality
- Bringing Creative Commons and 3D Printing Closer Together
- What Happens When a Design Patent is Infringed?
- The Missing Half of Open Source Hardware Licenses
- New Whitepaper on 3D Scanning and (the Lack of) Copyright
- Designer For Hire: Who Gets the Files?
- Cheerleader Uniforms (and 3D Printing) Are Going to the Supreme Court!
- Changes that Kluwer Agreed to in Their Academic Publishing Contract
- Super simple python web scraper/file downloader
- Spring Policy Updates
- 3D/DC 2016 Roundup
- MaKey MaKey and the Limits of Open Source Hardware Licensing
- 3D Printing and Product Liability
- Immunity for Maker Technologies?
- The Bust of Nefertiti: Who Owns the Copyright to 3D Scanned Art?
- Announcing the 2015 Shapeways Transparency Report
- Will 3D Printing Change the Patent System?
- The Plight of Thing 1350837 continued
- Abusing Models on Thingiverse, or The Plight of Thing 1350837
- Asking for Clear Rules on Copyright and 3D Printed Objects
- Can I Use Educationally-Licensed Software to Create Open Source Hardware?
- Why Yesterday’s Copyright Whitepaper Matters to You
- Free the Cube
2015
- It Has Been Awesome: 5 Years of 3D Printing
- SW Policy Update Post
- BY-3D? Creative Commons Attribution and 3D Printing
- Unlocking 3D Printers Ruling is a Mess
- Opening a Dialogue on Trademark Safe Harbors
- Controlling A Model Out in the World
- What OSHWA is – and is not – Trying to do with the Open Source Hardware Certification
- Open Source Hardware Certification Version 1
- Working With Trademarks
- How do IP Takedowns Work at Shapeways?
- What’s This Fair Use Thing I Keep Hearing About?
- Q: What Brings Cheerleaders and 3D Printing Together?
- Introduction to Rights and Protections
- Music Licensing and Information Sharing
- The Intense Desire to License (or what I’ve learned in my first 4 months at Shapeways)
- Post Mortem on Adafruit’s 4th of July Copyright Takedown
- The Mystery of Missing Obama
- Understanding Why the Copyright Office is Looking into 3D Printing
- Stratasys, PK, and I Agree on 3D Printer Unlocking*
- Replying to 3D Printing Unlocking Followup questions
- Keeping 3D Scans of the Public Domain in the Public Domain
- Podcast -Your Rights and 3D, A conversation with Shapeways about IP
- Unlocking 3D Printing Hearing
- 3D Printing + Veterans = A Better Life
- Unlocking 3D Printers Comments
- Drones & Models for Embracing 3D Printing
- The Enduring Lesson of Left Shark
- The Time is Now to Help to Unlock 3D Printers
- the radio free culture podcast at the free music
- 3D Printed Copyright Creep
- Update from the Limitless World of Left Shark IP
- Hello Shapeways!
- Hospitals, Net Neutrality, and the Era of Bottlenecks
- Today is my last day at Public Knowledge
- What Does it Mean to Open Source a Resin?
- 3 Steps for Licensing Your 3D Printed Stuff
- What Happens Now With Net Neutrality?
- A Landmark Day for Net Neutrality
- Something "Fishy" with Katy Perry's Left Shark Takedown
- Cultural Institutions Behaving Badly: Stupid Reactions to 3D Scanning
- Doubling Down on Copyfraud: You Don’t Need Permission to 3D Scan 500 Year Old Sculptures
- Radio DVR (record, edit, encode, download online radio stream) with a remote server and a raspberry pi
2014
- 3DP IP Wars Update: Formlabs to pay 3D Systems sales royalties
- Cooper Hewitt Shows How To Share 3D Scan Data Right
- Stratasys Drops One Patent from Its Lawsuit Against Afinia
- Putting the Open Internet Transparency Rule to the Test
- Bronies Show A Way to Not Destroy 3D Printing With Lawsuits
- What Mr. Show and HBO Go Can Teach us About the Importance of Digital Ownership
- US Legal Lessons from Canada’s First STL IP Infringement Case
- Universal Music Group and YouTube Agree to Forget About Fair Use
- How The FCC’s Proposed Fast Lanes Would Actually Work
- 5 Reasons Why Internet Fast Lanes Can Never Make Sense
- Toward Thingiverse.gov?
- Capacitive lightswitch (touch a picture, turn on a light) (updated 1/15)
- What Hookahs Can Teach Us About 3-D Printing and Copyright
- Netflix-Verizon Dispute Highlights FCC’s Lack of Interest in Being Informed
- Afinia Responds to Stratasys II: You Are Anticompetitive and Failed To Disclose Old Patents, Printer
- AT&T’s New Sponsored Data Scheme is a Tremendous Loss for All of Us
- Afinia Responds to Stratasys: Your Patents Are Invalid and Your Threats Are Anticompetitive
2013
- Undetectable Firearms Law Passes Without 3D Printing
- The GIFerator: Harnessing the Power of Open to Make Animated GIFs
- Programmable Big Red Button ("easy button")
- Will 3D Scanners Usher in a New Era of Copyright Infringement?
- What is Going on With Usage Restrictions on Media from Congress and the White House?
- Admitting 5 Things About Broadband
- Takeaways and Next Steps From the Open Hardware Summit
- But For These Rules…
- After All These Years, We Still Don’t Know Much About Data Caps
- Getty Shows What it Means to be a Modern Museum
- 3 Things We Learned About Publishers from the Apple E-Book Price Fixing Opinion
- Legislating for Headlines Makes you Look Like a Jerk
- 3D Printed Copyright Infringement is Still Copyright Infringement
- Thanks to 3D Printing and Open Source Hardware, Patent May be on the Cusp of a Copyright Moment
- LED Closet Lighting
- FCC: This is What a Net Neutrality Violation Looks Like
- Two Good Signs of a Maturing 3D Printed Gun Debate
- Boombox for the backyard with some stuff you may already have
- Meet Rep. Steve Israel, The Man Who Wants to Turn Congress Against 3D Printing
- The Wrong Tool for the Job
- Turning 3D Printed Copyright Infringers into Partners
- HBO, Give People a Way to Buy Your 3D Printed Stuff
- What's the Deal with Copyright and 3D Printing?
- Encouraging Signs On The Not-Suing-3D-Printing-Out-Of-Existence Front
- More on 3D Printing and DRM
- The Question at the Core of the Data Caps Debate
2012
- Focus on Undetectable Firearms, Not 3D Printers
- What Happens When Patent Lawsuits Hit Home 3D Printing?
- United States Copyright Office: Ripping is Illegal
- DRM on 3D Printers is a Big Deal. Nathan Myhrvold’s Patent is Not.
- 3D Printing, Guns, and Dealing with New Uses
- Open Source Hardware and the Law
- As Patent Drama Continues, 3D Printing Provides A Way Out For Mashup Creators
- Speed's Other Needs
- Makerbot Clone Tests the Limits of Open Source Hardware
- Know Your Limits
- The DIY Copyright Revolution - How 3-D printing will change the way we think about intellectual property