A device viewed solely in terms of its input and output, without any knowledge of its internal workings?
What is a black box?
100
A way of thinking that focuses on the local, does not see technology as the latest high tech gadget, thinks about infrastructure and repair, and values upkeep
What is a maintenance-centered perspective?
100
The realm embracing property rights that belong to the community at large, are unprotected by copyright or patent, and are subject to appropriation by anyone
What is Public Domain?
100
A biased way of thinking that emphasizes exceptional genius, the new and unknown, and favors those with access to resources and the ability to fail
What is innovation speak?
100
This is a culture less practiced in performance, or amateur creativity, and more comfortable with simple consumption
What is Read Only culture?
200
The process by which scientific and technical work is made invisible by its own success
What is Black Boxing?
200
It must be new, inventive (non-obvious), and useful or industrially applicable
What are the criteria for a patent?
200
This legal concept allows you to resell a used version of a work
What is First Sale?
200
Control
What is the purpose of intellectual property?
200
These are community-operated, often "Not For Profit" workspaces where people with common interests, often in computers, machining, science, or art, can meet, socialize and collaborate
What is a makerspace?
300
This concept reduces multiple and competing claims and the control over a technology down to a tale of singular genius
What is the lone inventor myth?
300
This must be a fixed medium, be original, and must have an author to qualify
What are the criteria for a copyright?
300
A concept that applies depending upon: the purpose or use of a work, the nature of the work, the amount of the portion in reflection to the whole, and the effect on the value of a work
What is Fair Use
300
A type of culture strengthened through participation, engagement, sharing, and creation
What is democratic culture?
300
When ordinary citizens read and add to the culture around them by creating and re-creating it using the same tools as professionals
What is Read/Write culture
400
A concept describing innovations that are collectively produced, have been preserved by communities for generations, and/or have resulted from incremental change
What is Traditional Knowledge?
400
A derogatory term for an organization that generates revenue without manufacturing the IP products that revenue pertains to
What is a Patent Troll
400
A form of protection provided to the authors of "original works of authorship" including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, preventing the creation of unauthorized copies or derivative works
What is copyright
400
In the past two decades, this has changed from 14 years to the life of an author plus 70 years
What is the length of a copyright?
400
This legislation would require manufacturers to sell repair parts and make diagnostic and service manuals available to the public
What is the Right to Repair?
500
A view that emphasizes the transformation of raw materials and individual originality as the basis of intellectual and artistic production, and thus a form of property
What is Romantic Authorship?
500
This is the colonialism-like process of one powerful group seizing and profiting from the cultural products of another, less powerful group without their consent or benefit
What is an Intellectual Land Grab?
500
The exclusive set of rights held by an inventor over an idea for 20 years after filing, in exchange for regulated, public discourse of its details
What is a patent
500
This product can be both copyrighted, and patented
What is software?
500
The practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works