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3d Printers, James Barker, Nicholas Pleasants, Peter Montine, Shudan Zhu
3d Printers, James Barker, Nicholas Pleasants, Peter Montine, Shudan Zhu
Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic
A preliminary report, addressing potential market disruption, the state of the law, and recommendations on future legislative action regarding consumer-grade 3D printing.
Copyright And 3d Printing, James Barker
Copyright And 3d Printing, James Barker
Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic
The implications of 3D printing are manifold, with some commentators anticipating permanent market disruption in the massive (and ill-defined) field of small physical things. I begin this paper by asserting that the opportunities afforded by 3D printing are so attractive that it is a mere matter of time before an explosion of use; but that the diffusion of manufacturing to the consumer level is poised to put individual end-users in uncomfortably close contact with intellectual property law.
By analogy to the physical CD-distribution model, and the ways in which it broke down in the Napster era, (and with sensitivity to …