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2012

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The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

Digital copyright infringement

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Printing The Impossible Triangle: The Copyright Implications Of Three-Dimensional Printing, Brian Rideout Sep 2012

Printing The Impossible Triangle: The Copyright Implications Of Three-Dimensional Printing, Brian Rideout

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

Three-dimensional printing (3D printing), which allows users to digitize and replicate objects, is emerging as the next potentially disruptive technology. It is now possible to “print” intricate objects from furniture to food to human organs. Because 3D printing relies on computer-based blueprints in order to create physical objects, digital copyright infringement can now impact the physical world. The first example occurred in February 2011, when the world's first Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice for a 3D printed object was sent. This article describes how 3D printing works in relation to copyright law, first by discussing this DMCA takedown …


International Media Pirates: Are They Making The Entertainment Industry Walk The Plank?, Lavonne Burke Jan 2012

International Media Pirates: Are They Making The Entertainment Industry Walk The Plank?, Lavonne Burke

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

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