Going For Gold: 3D Printing, Jewellery Together With The Futurity Of Intellectual Belongings Law

Additive Manufacturing, or 3D printing equally it is to a greater extent than usually known, continues to force the boundaries of Intellectual Property (IP) police line whilst raising questions relating to the protection together with exploitation of IP.

There accept been diverse attempts to address these questions through legal together with empirical studies; yet at the same time, at that spot continues to hold upward express literature together with fighting on the implications of 3D printing surrounding IP law, industry, society, applied scientific discipline together with policy.

This challenge, which extends to the lucrative jewellery sector raises farther questions inwards relation to creativity, design, copyright together with licensing together with these issues volition hold upward addressed at the lawsuit yesteryear bringing together experts from the cultural together with trouble organisation sectors including designers, manufacturers, distributors, policy makers together with legal professionals.

This multi-disciplinary lawsuit which volition explore the higher upward issues volition too render the platform for a intelligence of the ‘Going for Gold’ projection carried out yesteryear researchers at CIPPM (Bournemouth University) inwards collaboration alongside Museotechniki Ltd and Uformia AS and volition hold upward complemented yesteryear a demonstration of 3D printed jewellery artefacts resulting from the project.

The event, based on the ‘Going for Gold’ project is supported yesteryear the RCUK funded Centre for Copyright together with New Business Models inwards the Creative Economy (CREATe), AHRC Grant Number AH/K000179/1.

Confirmed Speakers together with Participants:

Mark Bloomfield (Electrobloom); Roger Brownsword (Bournemouth University / Kings College London); Ruth Burstall (Baker & McKenzie LLP); Frank Cooper (Jewellery Industry Innovation Centre, Birmingham Jewellery School); Lionel Dean (De Montfort University); Damian Etherington (Ipswich Museum); Nikolaos Maniatis (Museotechniki Ltd); Dids McDonald (Anti Copying inwards Design); Dinusha Mendis (Bournemouth University); Jonathan Rowley (Digits2Widgets); Cherie Stamm (Uformia AS); Andrea Wallace (CREATe, University of Glasgow); Michael Weinberg (Shapeways Inc).


Date: 24 March 2017

Time: 10 am - five pm

Venue: Executive Business Centre, Bournemouth University

The lawsuit is costless to attend, however, places are express together with registration https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/going-for-gold-3d-printing-jewellery-and-the-future-of-intellectual-property-law-implications-for-tickets-32234922521?aff=ehomecard  is required.


For whatever queries, delight contact, Dinusha Mendis at dmendis@bournemouth.ac.uk