Interesting on Slashdot

Here is a Slashdot article relating to a recent topic here abouts regarding IP issues re 3D printing/reproduction:
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Basically a US court has said that a 3D scan is legally equivalent to a photo, that is it is the property of the image creator, not the creator of the original.
Good news fore our side.

Good.

Good news!

Demented

Course, scanning is only half the problem when it come to reproducing things.

And there's still the whole 'incentive to breach copyright' type issues, too.

But, its a good first start. Now we have to make a scanning head for darwin quick, before the law gets changed

Ru Wrote:
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> But, its a good first start. Now we have to make a
> scanning head for darwin quick, before the law
> gets changed

Depend on the law getting changed. Congress has ALWAYS been for sale to the highest bidder. The bastards are already looking at legislating the creating of an IP police to make life exciting for the individually creative.