regulations
DiDIY and legal systems
Digital DIY creates new rights and responsibilities for its practitioners and technology producers, but also for its (maybe unaware!) end users, that is for everybody who uses, or is "exposed to" any product manufactured thanks to Digital DIY.
DiDIY and ethics
- The work on ethics in Digital DIY is accessible on our central page on ethics -
"Obstacles to Digital DIY": some notes from Veneto
Following publication of "obstacles to Digital DIY in Greece", here is a similar report from our DiDIY Mini Tour in Veneto, to be read and used with the same constraints, namely:
"Obstacles to Digital DIY": some notes from Greece
Open Meeting: Legal and regulatory barriers to large-scale digital DIY
(versione italiana e agenda in fondo)
As you may already know, the DiDIY Project has organized three events in Italy for the European Maker Week 2016. This post provides up to date information and useful links for the one in Rome, on May 30th, 2016
Ethics and Laws
Digital DIY makes it much easier for everybody to produce physical objects of all kinds. Such a capability brings considerable challenges to our current ethical and legal systems, and to our very idea of what is (or should be) right or wrong: what happens when virtually everybody can copy objects of design, self-produce spare parts for products she already owns, or manufacture dangerous ones?
Wanted: examples of ILLEGAL use of 3D printing, Open Hardware and other Digital DIY
No, this is NOT about 3D printed weapons (though we do study those too)