Session: Play – This and THATCamp Sussex Humanities Lab 2017 http://thisand.thatcamp.org 4-5 July 2017 Thu, 27 Jul 2017 08:13:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 http://thisand.thatcamp.org/files/2017/01/cropped-SHL_Front_A-32x32.png Session: Play – This and THATCamp Sussex Humanities Lab 2017 http://thisand.thatcamp.org 32 32 3d printing and our rights in the makerspace http://thisand.thatcamp.org/2017/06/08/3d-printing-and-our-rights-in-the-makerspace/ Thu, 08 Jun 2017 13:19:04 +0000 http://thisand.thatcamp.org/?p=173 Continue reading →]]>

The Sussex Humanities Lab has a 3d printer.

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Thingiverse is the main place to get digital files for printing. Most of the content on Thingiverse is open licensed, meaning that – in most cases – the uploader of the digital file claims copyright and the right to apply to Creative Commons licenses (or similar) to their copyright.

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A quick survey of Thingiverse suggests that uploaders may not have the right to apply open licenses to some of the content they upload. Borderline cases include:

– This file www.thingiverse.com/thing:116411 is a design plan for blocks compatible with Duplo.
– This file www.thingiverse.com/thing:2285505 is a design plan for terrain made from in copyright Google Maps data at touchterrain.geol.iastate.edu/
– The file www.thingiverse.com/thing:912478 is a model of the Eiffel Tower

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Given the academic interest in 3d printing this session will introduce 3d printing and discuss the potential future legal challenges of the technology.

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