Diegetics

I doubt this is going to stand up in court.

The next Napster? Copyright questions as 3D printing comes of age

The Penrose Triangle is as elegant as it is impossible—much like M.C. Escher’s drawings, it presents a two-dimensional illusion that the eye interprets as three-dimensional. The task of effectively creating this illusion in three dimensions, without resorting to hidden openings or gimmicky twists, seemed daunting until a Netherlands-based designer named Ulrich Schwanitz succeeded in printing the object recently. But Schwanitz, who posted a YouTube video of his design achievement in action, wouldn’t share his secret with the world. Instead, he made his “impossible triangle” available for purchase through Shapeways, a company that fabricates custom 3D designs, for $70.

Within weeks of Schwanitz’s “discovery,” however, a 3D modeler (and former Shapeways intern) named Artur Tchoukanov watched the video and figured out how to recreate the shape. He then uploaded instructions to Thingiverse, an open-source repository of 3D models and content. BoingBoing picked up the story (well, part of it), and “wrongly” credited Tchoukanov as the initial creator of the object.

The same day the story ran, Schwanitz sent Thingiverse a DMCA takedown notice and demanded that the site remove Tchoukanov’s design (and a related one) because it allegedly infringed Schwanitz’s copyright. Although the copyright claim was questionable at best—was Schwanitz asserting copyright in the 3D design file, the image, or the structure itself?—Thingiverse nevertheless complied with the notice and removed the offending designs.

“For better or worse,” Thingiverse founder Bre Pettis wrote on the site’s blog, “we’ve hit a milestone in the history of digital fabrication.”

A few days later, after coming under Internet scrutiny, Schwanitz rescinded his DMCA complaint and promised to release his shape into the public domain. But the damage was done. As Cory Doctorow eloquently put it, Schwanitz “became the inventor of something much more substantial than a 3D Penrose Triangle—he became the inventor of copyright threats over open 3D repositories.”

Fucking crazy.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article ... t_id_plan/

a unique government approved ID for doing stuff on the net will not be compuslory, just like a social security number aint strictly compulsory....

it will save the children.

That is some of the worst news I've heard all decade YMix. That sort of basic operational stuff should not be patentable. There needs to be a law against patenting procedures.

Tell me about it.

How Google is responding is really interesting.

http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-bus ... -container" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Basically they are buying up tons of patents so that they have leverage over other companies that want to come after them.

I guess Google is buying up the power to be evil if it has to.

I think someone should patent the process of being a patent troll.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... Content%29" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

been alot of coverage on ars about this.. the european and american big boys wanting the internet to be whipped into a tv like shape where the official content providers can provide wholesome content that cant be pirated.

the g8 have started making noise about how they all agree that we dont deserve free media and that the big providers need more protection... the wild west days on the internet were always numbered, looks like the countdown has begun,.

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The window concept , similar to apple , is not patented .. that is why Apple could not sue Microsoft for window (I think it was Bell Lab project . open source)

China and India and Russia and Iran (and others) should make an open source MS-window-like interface for DOS

if so

MS is fucked

It is absolute sure that Microsoft uses window OS to spy on other nations .. for sure there is a virus like program that sends info to American authorities

A replacement for MS windows would sideline MS



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