IP in 3DP

Hit this article yesterday. Nice summary analysis of 3D printing under UK IP laws. Upshot is that many private uses won’t infringe. Nice discussion of the difference between using a control program to run a 3D printer to make an object and infringing that control program’s copyright by making copies of it (rather than from it). US analysis will have some differences. But it’s a start. More importantly, low cost 3D printing is coming, and it will change everything.