Es wird erwartet, dass mit dem Aufstieg von 3D-Printing die Copyrightwars, wie wir sie aktuell bei Film und Musik sehen, noch einmal in einem größeren Umfang erleben werden. (Siehe die Beiträge in der Kategorie „3D-Printing„)
The Economist berichtet über die ersten Fälle:
… WeiterlesenEarlier this year, for instance, one hobbyist worked out how to print the popular “Penrose Triangle”, an optical illusion that cannot exist in normal three-dimensional Euclidean space, and released a video challenging others to say how it was done. Another 3D modeler not only figured it out but uploaded the CAD file of his own solution to Thingiverse. Whereupon the initial designer threatened Thingiverse with legal action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998.
The issue was only resolved when it was pointed out that someone else actually invented the Penrose Triangle (a Swedish artist in the 1930s), and the optical illusion itself could be considered a useful object—and therefore did not qualify for copyright protection (which covers only non-functioning intangibles such as art, music and literature).