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Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

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Re: Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

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Post by Animats »

aresant wrote: post #5

I anticipate all sorts of crazy digital-rights management battles ahead for 3D objects like this - including art - but even more on likenesses / people / etc. Roughly a year ago I bought a structure scanner (1) for my iPad, scanned in friends, imported to unity and let them walk around themselves in the Oculus DK2. That was a very cool experience but an unexpected result was how many people asked me to delete the sca…

"I anticipate all sorts of crazy digital-rights management battles ahead for 3D objects like this - including art."

A 3D scan of an existing object does not create a new copyrighted work under US law. See Meshwerks vs. Toyota. This follows Bridgeman vs. Corel (2D photos don't create a new copyrighted work), which follows the famous Supreme Court decision Feist vs. Rural Telephone (which allowed loading phone directories into databases.).

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Post by DenisM »

Animats wrote: post #11
aresant wrote: post #5

I anticipate all sorts of crazy digital-rights management battles ahead for 3D objects like this - including art - but even more on likenesses / people / etc. Roughly a year ago I bought a structure scanner (1) for my iPad, scanned in friends, imported to unity and let them walk around themselves in the Oculus DK2. That was a very cool experience but an unexpected result was how many people asked me to delete the sca…

"I anticipate all sorts of crazy digital-rights management battles ahead for 3D objects like this - including art." A 3D scan of an existing object does not create a new copyrighted work under US law. See Meshwerks vs. Toyota . This follows Bridgeman vs. Corel (2D photos don't create a new copyrighted work), which follows the famous Supreme Court decision Feist vs. Rural Telephone (which allowed loading phone directo…

It hinges on the "creativity" aspect. Where discretion and creativity are present, the image is copyrightable. An exact replica is not.

Re: Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

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Post by roywiggins »

iNerdier wrote: post #2

This is one of the more interesting things to come out of the overlap of technology and artworks to my mind. If we continue to have arrangements like that of the Elgin Marbles in London some kind of compromise where a good quality facsimile like this can be created for relatively cheap and displayed to the public then at least we get to have a freer access to our shared heritage. It's a crying shame they had to resor…

Probably portable 3D scanners makes it easier, but facsimile art isn't new at all. The V&A museum in London has a huge set of Victorian-era plaster casts of EVERYTHING: http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/c/cast-courts/

There's a whole industry of manuscript fascimiles: http://www.facsimilefinder.com/

Re: Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

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Post by evereadicus »

unchocked wrote: post #10
tiglionabbit wrote: post #3

They snuck in kinects under their ties. That's great.

Was wondering how they did it, clearly a better resolution than photogrammetry. Source?

The institutional form of "Journalism" never informs the reader of the means to commit an action, especially when that action can be trivially replicated by a lone individual, for fear of copy cat "crimes" becoming a rampant problem.

Except, of course, when it's school shootings and such.

Then you learn exactly how it goes down, in every gory detail, repeated 24 hours a day in the cable news echo chamber. This way, there will always be copy cats for that sort of thing.

And the ad revenue on those stories is just out of this world.

Re: Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

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Post by zupreme »

This is the future. Copyrights and patents were really only effective when the means of production were out of the reach of the average person.

3D printing, digital audio, and other current technologies are almost certainly going to make copyrights only effective at stopping mass monetezation of copied content - not at stopping the copying and sharing of content for personal use.

3D printers in particular, I believe, will trigger the decimation of the scale model and toy markets as we know them. The only vestiges which are likely to survive will be those requiring a high number of moving parts, motorizations, and more.

Re: Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

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Post by x5n1 »

zupreme wrote: post #16

This is the future. Copyrights and patents were really only effective when the means of production were out of the reach of the average person. 3D printing, digital audio, and other current technologies are almost certainly going to make copyrights only effective at stopping mass monetezation of copied content - not at stopping the copying and sharing of content for personal use. 3D printers in particular, I believe,…

Does not make sense to say that most people will not have jobs and we will have minimum income, and then add that all the infinite goods will be limited in supply by law.

The whole point is yes we have no more jobs, and all the infinite goods are free to whoever wants them. The producers of the infinite goods live off either other business models or on structured income, perhaps determined by how much of their infinite goods are consumed by the public.

Re: Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

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Post by toomuchtodo »

Excitingly enough, UNESCO and IDA are helping fund cameras for 3D scanning of cultural heritage sites in Syria to preserve them in the event ISIS/ISIL destroys them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_herita...

"After the Palmyra temple's destruction in August 2015, the Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) announced plans to establish a digital record of historical sites and artifacts threatened by ISIL advance.[56][57][58][59] To accomplish this goal, the IDA, in collaboration with UNESCO, will deploy 5,000 3D cameras to partners in the Middle East.[60] The cameras will be used to capture 3D scans of local ruins and relics.[61][62][63]"

Million Image Database: http://digitalarchaeology.org.uk/projects/

Mapillary is also performing photogrammetry on a massive scale with crowdsourced photos (Mapillary allows for the use of their photo database for contribution to OSM as well: https://www.mapillary.com/osm.html).

http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2015/11/10/pointclouds.html

The future is very bright for recreating 3D objects as well as map data programatically.

EDIT: Apologies this comment isn't formatted better, was super excited to get all of this information into a comment quickly. It intersects right between my archival and photogrammetry interests.

Re: Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

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Post by icelancer »

aresant wrote: post #5

I anticipate all sorts of crazy digital-rights management battles ahead for 3D objects like this - including art - but even more on likenesses / people / etc. Roughly a year ago I bought a structure scanner (1) for my iPad, scanned in friends, imported to unity and let them walk around themselves in the Oculus DK2. That was a very cool experience but an unexpected result was how many people asked me to delete the sca…

Very cool. I have a DK2; how did you use the image/output of the Structure Scanner to create a virtual world to walk around?

EDIT: I see you used Unity. I'm not a game programmer (I use the Oculus for video work); care to expound briefly? This could be huge for my line of work. Thanks for any time you can spend on my question.

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