It Will Be Awesome if They Don’t Screw it Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology, a Nov 2010 report from Public Knowledge, focussing on the IP implications…
“One of the goals of this whitepaper is to prepare the 3D printing community, and the public at large, before incumbents try to cripple 3D printing with restrictive intellectual property laws.”
And for those who don’t read: “We Make Things” — an excellent 16 minute mini-documentary on ‘the maker revolution’….
We Make Things. from Ryan Varga on Vimeo.
Some links from a lecture I gave on the subject:
* Maker kit:
* Workshops for hire:
* Instructions and open source modules:
Hacking the Brother knitting machine
* Product customisation:
Unofficial Lego guns and helmets
* Hand-made marketplaces:
* Print-on-demand:
Lulu (print-on-demand books)
Blurb (quality photobooks)
* Funding:
* Small-scale outsourcing for later customisation:
* Birmingham
by Indra
20 Dec 2010 at 11:13
Just a note to see if you could let me have your contact details so I can add you to my mailing-list – I’m currently based in the West Midlands so hope to be doing more projects here. I curated the Donald Locke exhibition you featured when it came to Wolverhampton earlier this year – and in the Spring I am curating a show by Doug Jones at mac arts centre (see link above).
All the best.
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