3D Printing

This is really interesting. It show's that the right does not follow the
materialization. In fact, copyright just works normally here, as there
is a monopoly to produce instances. Once produced, the tangible
instances are sold and property of the new owner, that has the right to
re-sell the instance, destroy it or whatever...

Best, 

Rigo

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:47:39AM -0800, VORA,POORVI (HP-Corvallis,ex1) wrote:
> 
> That brings to mind 3-D printing, where a material object (such as a
> cell-phone cover, even an artificial limb) is created with a printer, based
> on "3-D printing" a digital asset.  It is interesting to see that another
> instance of a digital object corresponds to a physical object of a
> completely new kind, and, with technology improvements, could correspond to
> almost any material object - not just what we think of as `multimedia'/media
> asset. It also brings up the issue of the material worth of intellectual
> property vs. the material worth of its realization. 
>

Received on Monday, 11 March 2002 06:41:14 UTC