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Don't believe the hype: 3D printing in law and society
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12pm — 1pm
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AGSE211
Hawthorn Campus
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manufacturing or '3D printing' has emerged into the mainstream in the
last few years, with much hype about its revolutionary potential as the
latest 'disruptive technology' after the internet to destroy existing
business models, empower individuals and evade any kind of government
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<p><span>This lecture will examine some of these themes from a
socio-legal perspective, looking at how various areas of law interact
with 3D printing theoretically and in practice—including intellectual
property, product liability, gun laws, data privacy and
fundamental/constitutional rights—and compare this interaction to the
internet scenario. </span></p>
<p><span>Despite rhetoric proclaiming 3D printing will usher in the end
of government control and the end of corporate-enforced scarcity, 3D
printing, especially consumer-oriented printers, may not be as
disruptive to law and society as commonly believed. This is because
other government and corporate actors, and not just empowered
'prosumers', have been investigating the potential of 3D printing for
their own purposes, which may in the end just reinforce existing
hierarchies and distributions of power.</span></p>
<p><span>All welcome.</span></p>
<h2>About the speaker</h2>
<p><span><strong>Dr Angela Daly</strong> is Vice-Chancellor's Research
Fellow at Queensland University of Technology and research associate at
the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society. She is a
socio-legal scholar of technology with expertise in intellectual
property, human rights (privacy and free expression) and competition and
regulation. Angela is the author of <em>Socio-Legal Aspects of the 3D Printing Revolution</em> (Palgrave 2016), based on her postdoctoral research at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research (SISR), and <em>Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law</em>
(Hart 2016), based on her doctoral research at the European University
Institute. Angela has degrees from Oxford University, Universite de
Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and EUI, and has previously worked for Ofcom
and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She is also an adjunct research
fellow in SISR's Digital Society flagship.</span></p>
<h2>About SISR Seminar Series</h2>
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