On The Copyright Protection Of The 3D Printing

In recent years, 3D printing technology is burning to touch, in 2012, the U.S. government took 3D printer technology as the first project among the 15 manufacturing innovation center, the British magazine《economist》also called the 3D printing technology “the important power to promote the third industrial revolution.” As the government and media attention, 3D printing quickly spread around the world. Comparing with the traditional cut machining technology, 3D printing technology has several advantages: such as saving raw materials, shortening production cycle, saving labor costs and personalized production. The technology has widely applying prospect, and has invented small type which is suitable for family to conduct. However, as everything coins has its two sides, operating 3D printing is simply and personality, reducing the cost of product manufacturing and technical barriers, so that consumers can operate by their own. So it is more easier to produce a series of torts, the copyright system is impacted, so that this technology is apt to become a pirate weapon of suspicion.This paper’s object is copyright rising by 3D printing technology, it is generally believed that 3D printing technology is an invention, others considered that the 3D printing technology as the develop of existing copyright. This paper focus on the characteristics of 3D printing technology, and analyze its location in the copyright issues, and then analyze the challenges in the field of copyright law, and then put forward some suggestions to improve the 3D printing technology’s legislation. This paper consists of three parts, introduction, text and conclusion. There are three parts in the main body of the text:The first part is an overview of 3D printing copyright issues, this part introduced in detail 3D printing technology concept, principle, classification and application prospect, then put the emphasize on discussing 3D printing quality of the copyright of 3D printing process. Involving in “3D printing document” and “3D print”, whether it constitutes “3D print the document”and “3D print” meaning of copyright works can not be generalized, should carry on concrete analysis according to different situations.The second part is the summary of copyright infringement and counter-plead in 3D printing. This part describes the behavior of the 3D printing practice which will happen or may occurring, which is mainly divided into “3D printing document” copyright infringement, as well as the “3D printing material” copyright infringement. This part also discuss the torts counter-plead and how to apply it reasonable.The third part is the challenge and countermeasures of the copyright protection system under the background of 3D printing. This part mainly analyzes the challenge to the development of 3D printing technology, the “copy right” and “right "" and “how to apply reasonable, in face of 3D printing technology, there are some limitations. According to these problems, the author put forward the relevant countermeasures to improve the copyright.