The Maker Movement: Copyright Law, Remix Culture and 3D Printing

Rimmer, Matthew

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“…Another significant feature of these online 3D printing communities is the open source nature of the designs, with a recent study into 348,509 files on Thingiverse finding that 90.6% of all files are available to be downloaded and modified by anyone with the skills to do so under a CC 4.0 license (Özkil, 2017). Similar to the digitization of music, this has led to a culture of remixing, modifying and appropriating 3D files, which are then fed back into the online community as a 'derivative' (Rimmer, 2017), or in Thingiverse terms, a 'remix.' Furthermore, of the files openly available to be modified on Thingiverse, 86.2% allow commercial sale of modified files, meaning that hundreds of thousands of designs are currently available for anyone to use for financial gain, without any consequences or need to return funds to the original designer.…”

Section: D Printing Communitiesmentioning

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The Popular Culture of 3D Printing

Novak

Bardini

2019

Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts

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As 3D printing technology achieves mainstream adoption, people are forming new relationships with products as they shift from passive consumers to “prosumers” capable of both producing and consuming objects on demand. This is fueled by expanding online 3D printing communities, with new data within this chapter suggesting that prosumers are challenging existing understandings of popular culture as they bypass traditional mass manufacturing. With 3D digital files rapidly distributed through online platforms, this chapter argues that a new trend for “viral objects” is emerging, alongside the “3D selfie,” as digital bits spread via the internet are given physical form through 3D printing in ever increasing quantities. Analysis of these trends will provide academics, educators, and prosumers with a new perspective of 3D printing's socio-cultural impact, and further research directions are suggested to build a broader discourse around the opportunities and challenges of a cyberphysical future.

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Section: D Printing Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%