By now, most people have heard about the website DEFCAD, a proposed “Pirate Bay” for sharing 3D printable designs without regard to intellectual property laws, regulations or take-down notices. DEFCAD is at least loosely related to Defense Distributed (also founded…
Tag: Piracy
3D Rx: The Future of Drug Manufacture and Delivery?
Jamie Goodman is a guest blogger and is an associate at Gilbert’s LLP in Toronto, where he works alongside Law in the Making co-founder Paul Banwatt. Lee Cronin, a renowned professor of chemistry and nanoscience, recently gave a TED talk…
Game of Thrones vs. Settlers of Catan
Yesterday’s post about nuPROTO’s troubles for making a 3D printed iPhone Throne Dock got me thinking about proprietary designs and interfaces (and how to double down on this blog’s newly minted nerd-factor). A couple of years ago, there was some…
Aside
There’s a great short article on the BBC site teeing up some of the issues we’ll be discussing here at Law in the Making:
Thanks to 3D printers, budding counterfeiters could soon create parts or goods themselves. The problem for authorities is that copying physical objects is not always illegal. (link)
As the article notes, the problem is that, unlike most cases of music piracy, copying 3D objects is often not illegal at all. It’s a situation more akin to the invention of the printing press than the launch of Napster. Stay tuned!
3D Piracy
There’s an interesting article on Venture Beat about some pretty old-school piracy already being seen in the 3D printing world. Stealing design files? Call me when it’s the Death Star plans. From the article: What happens to designs when anyone…