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CopyLeft & CopyRight

Copyright and intellectual property is a serious issue for designers. There is an understanding of what copyright is and how it works. The Agenda is willing to make awareness of copyrighting and empower the designer to make choices of how to use coyright and the alternative 'copyleft'.

Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law, he raises all the questions that are important of ownership of the ideas and expressions within.

An example of an open source software, 'Linux' is free and freely available on computer systems other than Microsoft Windows. The open-source software has got the designers, musicians, artists and activists questioning of the ways that copyright has been changed into a tool that not only benefits the authors and the artists, but also the corporations.

MakerCase is an open-free software where you can easily design to laser cut

This was designed on MakerCase, above shows screenshots of how this was made, you will have to enter the sizes manually also it gives you an option to a shapes and text

The example on top shows the basic design that was made on Makercase, it was then uploaded onto InkScape the free open-source software that is quite similar to illustrator, and then added a few designs; circles, lines intergrating showing a visual meaning of interaction, beneath that is a quote that was said by Marshall McLuhan.

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