Subject
3 entries
Intellectual Property
Bookmarks
It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing and Intellectual Property
Public Knowledge's 2012 white paper examining how existing copyright, patent, and trademark law applies to 3D printing — and arguing that the right policy response is restraint, not a DMCA-style preemptive clampdown. The title says the technology will be awesome if policymakers don't overreact.
Patent Goo: Self-Replicating Paxil
Nick Szabo's 2005 essay on pharmaceutical polymorph patents — how drug companies patent different crystal structures of the same molecule to extend exclusivity. Uses the Paxil case and the 'ice-nine' metaphor to explain how crystal contamination can eliminate a polymorph's commercial value.
Everything is a Remix Part 4
Kirby Ferguson's 'Everything is a Remix Part 4' — the final episode arguing that copyright law has been captured by corporations to restrict rather than enable creativity, inverting its constitutional purpose. Pairs with Jobs's 'good artists borrow, great artists steal' as a defense of creative recombination.