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Last week Mike wrote about a new patent from Intellectual Ventures that seeks to assert ownership of the idea of DRM for 3D printing. ...

There's plenty of breathless writing about the imminent 3D-printing revolution, but realistically, what is it likely to mean for most...

In a post last week, I wrote about the current obsession with “IP”, and noted some moves to make it more suitable for the digital age. In th...

As my occasional postings on the subject indicate, one area that fascinates me is that of fabbers , aka 3D printers . One reason is that th...

I recently wrote about the latest iteration of the Open Source Hardware Definition, which provides a framework for crafting open hardware li...

Last week I wrote a piece about analogue copying. Specifically, it centred on the 3D scanning and copying of an Aston Martin – because that ...

I write a lot about copyright, and the right to share stuff. In particular, I think that for digital artefacts – text, music, video etc. - f...

The recent battle over the Digital Economy Bill has focussed renewed attention on the area of copying digital artefacts – music and films, f...

Why does open source succeed? Apart, that is, from the fact that it is created by huge numbers of amazingly clever and generous people? Or,...

I've written a fair amount about open source fabbers, but here's someone addressing another important aspect: open sourcing how to ...

I've written before about open fabbers - effectively 3D printers that can make anything - and how it's crucial for there to be ope...

I wrote about an open source fabber recently, and now here's another one, the RepRap : The difference with RepRap, which is the size of...

People whose opinion I respect think that 3D printing machines, which allow you to "print" an object in layers, just as ordinary p...

First cars , then trains , now planes. New Scientist is reporting that it is now possible to create almost an entire plane by "print...