3D Fabrication and Copyright
13th December 2010
What if I could simply download a three-dimensional design file for the part I needed from the Internet and then print it immediately on my household 3D printer? Thirty minutes later my dishwasher could be back in business with a good-as-new plastic replacement part, though I could potentially be on the hook for a huge damage award. That’s because, as the physical world gets digitized, it will face all the same intellectual property issues that have so far affected digital content like music and movies.
Further crumbles from the ‘intellectual property’ scam.