Study On The Copyrightable Of The 3D Printing Digital Model

The rise of 3D printing technology not only brings a new manufacturing mode for manufacturing industry, but also causes the panic on the appearance of lots of infringement on intellectual property rights. The application of 3D printing technology includes 3D printing modeling, 3D printing manufacturing, 3D printing digital model transmission and other processes, and the intellectual property rights are concerned. The author only discusses the copyright of 3D printing digital model in the paper, it is because that whether 3D printing digital model is protected by the copyright and it is protected in which works will be discussed inevitably to judge whether 3D printing manufacturing behavior constitutes the act of infringement of copyright in the theoretical analysis or judicial judgment. The paper only focuses on whether 3D printing technology constitutes the works and it constitutes which kind of work as the logic thread, and it is completed based on the research and summary of domestic and foreign scholars' opinions and the analysis of related judicial cases. Chapter I reveals the research significance and the current status of domestic and foreign scholars' research on the copyright of 3D printing digital model. Chapter II simply describes the concepts of 3D printing technology and 3D printing digital model. Chapter III analyzes the nature and components of the works to confirm whether 3D printing digital model constitutes works. Chapter IV firstly clearly summarizes the specific works type of 3D printing digital model, and the problems shall be noted, then analyzes the possible works types constituted by 3D printing digital model. Via the judicial precedent for the works types constituted by 3D printing digital model, it further summarizes that 3D printing model digital constitutes the work.