Lets say in 10 years, 3D printing technology become so advanced, almost anything can be perfectly replicated. So I find some leaked car 3d file, I download it, I print the car. What current laws would I be violating? Civil or criminal? And what future laws can you anticipate?
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Patent laws aside, having a printer big enough to print a vehicle or even parts of a vehicle to assemble would not be cheap.
Then you would have to go through the hoops of getting the vehicle certified as road safe to even drive it on public roads.
So having the machinery to print it, the resources to print it, the know how to assemble it, and the procedures to have it certified as road safe, would be enough of a barrier before folks would be concerned with patents.
Well I’ll be goddamned… I guess I wouldn’t download a car.
I would, for the principle of it
Use it on private property like a farm, very little laws on that.
Sure, but then I doubt anyone will be coming after you for patents
In the us it isn’t too hard to get a title for a kit car. It needs an inspection and emissions test in most states, but it’s certainly possible and people do it regularly.
Patent law, mostly; manufacturing a patented invention without a license from the patent owner.
Is it actually illegal to do that for personal use? You can’t sale a patented invention without permission from the patent owner but if I go into my workshop and make an exact replica of the newest and greatest anti squirrel wooden bird feeder to hang in my yard have I done anything illegal?
I’m having flashbacks to the commercials about piracy before movies started. “You wouldn’t steal a car…Piracy is a crime”
I should also point out that you don’t need to find a leaked blueprint or steal the plans.
You can just download and print them.
I don’t think that you would be violating very many, if you kept up to standards, had it tested for roadworthiness and had all the relevant certifications.
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