Improvement Of Copyright System For3D Printing

3D printing is the "symbolic production tool of the Third Industrial Revolution", it has many advantages, such as save the production cycle and materials, ease the weight of the end product, ignore the complex technologies, personalized production, so that it has broad application prospects such as personal desktop application. However, although3D printing brings disruptive changes to us, it also can become a piracy machine and impacts strongly on copyright system, since it is convenient to copy, easy to modify and could be manufactured individually.Through the analyzation of3D printing’s copyright legal relation, this article clarifies the object and content of copyright law and points out the challenges that3D printing would bring to the current copyright law. This paper also suggests improving the copyright system on the basis of principle of copyright owner inclined protection, so that we can balance individual and public interests, and promote the vigorous development of3D printing.The thesis is divided into three chapters:Chapter1analyzes the copyright legal relation of3D printing. By using originality as the object standard to analyze,3D printing process will produce three kinds of products, however, only the original and3D data model can result the work. As for the subject, it consists of the right party and the duty party, and the latter can be classified into3D end user,3D data model network service providers and3D equipment manufacturers. The "copyright" includes the personal rights and property rights, of which3D printing will impact most are the revision right and reproduction right.Chapter2elaborates the challenges that3D printing brings to the current copyright system. Because of the existing law lag behind, it’s unable to cope with problems brought by the technical features of3D printing. Obtaining3D data model illegally and rampantly print will increase piracy, modifying3D data model easily will also infringe the revision right, and individual manufacturing by3D printing will use "fair use" to exempt liability. These challenges will seriously damage the rights of the copyright owner and destroy the balance of interests.Chapter3puts forward legislative proposals of copyright system to regulate3D printing. Corresponding to the above problems, chapter3gives advices that extend the connotation of "copy" and bring3D data model into "work" in the legislation to combat piracy, introduce the Creative Commons to prevent risks in infringement of revision right, and add "rationality" standard to narrow fair use or import Private Copying Compensation System to compensate copyright owner. Through the system construction inclined to protect copyright owner, interests between copyright owners and users will be balanced.