Comments on: Coming Soon to a 3D Printer Near You: Mixed Reality Intellectual Property Infringement

By: Doubledown Tandino

Doubledown Tandino — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:00:28 +0000

Congrats on landing that domain name too! I think it’s prime web domain uberness.

I used to own cyb.org that’s my best owned domain

By: Danny Bevans

Danny Bevans — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:43:09 +0000

Good post, you / some of your readers may be interested in my blog http://www.ipfreely.com. It is only new but I have done a great deal of work previously on virtual worlds and IP and will be making this a focal point of the blog.

By: larryr

larryr — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:42:57 +0000

been here for over a decade..:)

right now the 3d printers make “objects” that are more akin to “resin model” kits of truly rough model makers levels of detail…

it will be another decade before the home printers will be popping out “hasbro level” star wars figures youd let your 6 year old play with…. both materials, costs, and liabilities from the printer manufactures will factor in..

but for now the ip issues of the virtual object are of more presssing concern for those whos industry it is to create IP and entertainment….

everything has a cost.. even if it seems free…..
but it continues to seem that the obvious is again beyond the reality of those most vocal about the virtual in their quest for their web2.0 influence or fame.

clickable culture has a horrid blog about this. shows the writers inexperience in reality and the depths of his delusions as to the value of the virtual.

By: Doubledown Tandino

Doubledown Tandino — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:29:03 +0000

by the way, in my first post, I simply pointed out names of prominent people just for the joke….. I personally an cool with each of the people I mentioned in post #1….

…. so years later when one of em above finds some old google cache of the reply #1…. this post #2 is my TOS.
by reading this post you hearby agree that you understand I used your name as a joke, and you won’t try to sue me because I put your name and voodoo doll in the same sentence or some crap like that…

…. law…. jeeez… all these rules….

By: Doubledown Tandino

Doubledown Tandino — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:25:47 +0000

I could definitely see myself buying one of these printers to make little army men of the avatars I hate… and I can set em up around my office and shoot with rubber bands and fling staplers at.

Or, better yet, I can produce voodoo dolls of the avatars I hate and try to light em on fire….. by turning on my windlight, then holding a magnifying glass near the screen.

FRY YOU LITTLE PLASTIC ANSHE! FRY YOU M LINDEN! FRY YOU MINI BILL GATES!!

….but i digress….

I see your point on the legalities… but I don’t think we’ll see a court case involving this until a company is mass producing and selling one specific item they dont have the rights to.

Anyone that is offering the service of
“Get a real life custom replica of something in 2d”
It may end up coming down to each company slowly altering their “services” as to not appear to print anything without rights… but if I emailed one of these companies and said “yeah, make me a Philip Linden, an Aimee Webber, do one of myself, and throw in a Derek Jeter….
between me and the company, who else would know?
and if aimee weber (who has trademarked her avatar) got wind that I ordered a replica… the most she would do is tell the company they are not allowed to recreate replicas of her. I don’t think a court case would come from a doll.

So, legally… there is a line that is going to be crossed for awhile, then skirted on for a long time.