This white paper, It Will Be Awesome if They Don’t Screw it Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology, examines how intellectual property (IP) law impacts the rapidly maturing technology of 3D printing, and how incumbents who feel threatened by its growth might try to use IP law to stop it.


The PDF version is available here.

The Kindle version is available here.

AI-Assisted Library Rewriting and Relicensing Brings Open Source Software into the IP World of Open Source Hardware

A dispute about a python library called chardet may be an early rumble of an earthquake in the world of open source software (OSS) and in...… Continue reading