Copy cat killers: The future dangers for 3D printing
... The Chief executive of Makerbot, Bre Pettis, seems to have an almost naïve optimism about the future, perceiving an end to the capitalist market as we know it. He told the BBC, “I don’t think we need a marketplace. It’s a sharing world. We are at the dawn of the age of sharing where even if you try to sell things the world is going to share it anyway.”
We have seen how this world of ‘sharing’ has hit the music industry, with a total shake-up of the business model built around record labels and their exclusive ownership of artists’ work.
Lawyer Peter Hanna succinctly lays out the 3 subcategories of IP and their possible ramifications in a future world of prolific 3D printing on Ars Technica. He notes that theoretically all three subcategories, patent, copyright and trademark laws, could be infringed by theses machines.
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