2025

• The Most Popular Open Source Hardware Licenses (2016-2025)
• Locked Down Etextbooks Are Also Bad in Italy
• Music Competition Without Copyright
• Which CERN Open Hardware License Should I Use?
• Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?
• Does an AI Dataset of Openly Licensed Works Matter?
• Pi-Powered Berlin BVG Alerts

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

• I’m Not Sure That (If?) GitHub Copilot is a Problem
• Lincoln Hand Shifter Knob
• Printables, Honda, Platforms, and Nastygrams
• Are NFTs Compatible with OpenGLAM?

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

2011

• 4G + Data Caps = Magic Beans

2010

• A Copyright Office for the 21st Century
• It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up

2009

• Forcing the Net Through a Sieve

2007

• New Intern!