The ‘Center for Transnational IP, Media and Technology Law and Policy‘ at Bucerius Law School is tasked as a project partner in the dtec.bw project ‘Fab City – Decentralized Digital Production for Urban Value Creation’ with the legal examination of the Fab City and Open Lab infrastructure.
⫸ The vision of a Fab City is to produce (almost) everything locally that is needed and consumed to create sustainable cities and regions and to counteract climate change and resource waste.
From 14 to 16 February, the OpenLab Mobile on the Bucerius Law School Campus will be offering free introductory workshops on digital fabrication technologies, providing important components for achieving this goal. With 3D printers, laser cutters, and CNC milling machines, products can be developed from idea to finished product, repaired, and spare parts manufactured based on open-source principles that encourage collaborative design and manufacturing (with limited or no protection of intellectual property).
This is where the research focus of the law school lies: The nine-member team by Prof. Dr. Dana Beldiman (Academic Director and Founder) und Junior Professor Dr. Linda Kuschel explores the IP legal foundations of these novel technologies and provides solutions to liability issues.
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The dtec.bw research project Fab City is funded by the Helmut Schmidt University (HSU/UniBw H) – dtec.bw is financed by the European Union – NextGenerationEU. The partners of OpenLab Mobile are Süderelbe AG as operator, Helmut Schmidt University, the New Production Institute and Fab City Hamburg e.V..
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