Intellectual Property Rights and the OLPC laptop

Introduction

This page is about two aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and the OLPC laptop.

• Firstly, the Intellectual Property Rights of the OLPC laptop, that is, the intellectual property rights which have been produced during the development work and which could be exploited commercially: for example by selling licenses of technology so that money can be raised for funding laptops for more children.

• Secondly, there are the Intellectual Property Rights owned by other companies and by individuals and how those Intellectual Property Rights affect the possibility of the use of the items they cover being used in the OLPC project.

The Intellectual Property Rights owned by other companies and by individuals

Some offers of free licences of technology have been politely declined by the OLPC management as the technology is not open source.