I have to say the super 8 cube looks more like your Fractal Cube Pendant than the OP's cube. So does that mean you are going to send them a cease and desist for the movie? Seriously though don't see how they can stop anyone producing anything that looks somehow vaguely like their prop - after a few more movies there will be no more shapes left for the rest of us to use at this rate.
I think they're mainly upset since it was on shapeways for sale. Granted I made no sales since I got the email so quickly, but that's what they're most upset about, if I had to guess. The cube you just posted maybe was a concept version? The one in the film doesn't look like that at all.
So are we all going to have to go and see Super 8 now to find out what the cube really looks like? Maybe this was all a cunning ploy by Paramount........
more buzz: http://torrentfreak.com/paramount-cease-and-desist-targets-3 d-printer-pirate-110628/ (i get these links from my Google analytics)
in Germany we heard today about it ... Unbelievable! http://futurezone.at/digitallife/3835-filmstudio-verbietet-3 d-druck-von-super-8-wuerfel.php Greetings from Germany!
Yet more.. this time some very interesting quotes about the validity of copyright claim on 3D printed items... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/paramount-no -3d-printing-of-our-alien-super-8-cubes.ars Also finally a comparison of baltimore's super 8 model and the prop on the movie - it doesn't look like mine.. so they are safe from my lawyers for now
And to further muddy the waters there is now a Public Domain licensed version on the thingverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:9744 So now what happens if we all download this and get it printed at Shapeways??? Are the lawyers coming after all of us?
lets see in 24 hours.. I think they're going to get that Cease and Desist letter As for printing a copyright item for your self and only for your self on Shapeways - that's already a known fact - you can. Like my World of Warcraft sculptures: https://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=4647&a mp;start=0&
Not if it's private and printed only for yourself... Now if only I can get my factory in China up and running with this as quick as possible :twisted: Glenn
Well it's a PD design so you can go and download it and take it to your factory in China - not that they would care anyway. Of course getting the finished product back into the US might be interesting but you could probably corner the Pacific market. But now the STL file is out what's to stop people distributing it further - maybe even put in on the Pirate bay?
Time also, and Hollywood reporter, and dozens more! http://techland.time.com/2011/06/30/roll-over-movie-bootlegg ers-its-all-about-3d-prop-printing-now/ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/hollywoods-next-big -piracy-fight-206859
@ baltimore I saw the movie yesterday .. what can i say ..Spielberg has lost it. I conclude that you were a pond in a PR ploy to boost sales of a stupid prop that had barely 5 minutes of total screen exposure.. I doubt any kid who saw the movie even noticed it.. to realy want one.. Those lawyers that sent you this Cease and Desist must be laughing their asses off !
It can't be that because if I hadn't submitted the article to boingboing, no one would have picked up the story. I like the theory though! Another untrue theory going around on some of the comments I've seen posted is that I don't even exist and that the entire thing of me even making the item was a lie and a ploy to get more interest in the movie =)