Contributory and Vicarious Liability in Latin America in connection with 3D Printing

Completed review by SSRN

By Pablo Rueda and Tomás Beltramo

MHR Martínez de Hoz & Rueda

Date Written: June 2020

Abstract

Today 3D printers have produced the SpaceX helmets used in the Dragon 2 space ship, and costs get below industrial production costs, massive home 3D production of goods will not only become a reality but also will spread exponentially. This article is focus on the head-on tension between 3D printing and existing Latin American tort law principles in relation to contributory and vicarious or strict liability.

The main common feature among the legal systems is the absence of specific regulation on the issue of secondary liability in 3D printing, feature which has started to revert in certain countries such as Chile and Colombia because of the implementation of free trade treaties with the United States based on the criteria established by the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. One of the most important challenges of these future statutes will be the regulation on the law and jurisdiction to be applied to 3d printing cases because of the multiple jurisdictional elements present in most of such infringements; and thus, the international legal cooperation will be the key for the coordination and harmonization of the provisions between Latin America’s legal frameworks.

It is still to be seen in Latin America what attention will the law or the courts give to the underlying shift from the traditional IP monopolistic rights to innovation generated by content sharing and collaborative works.

Keywords: 3D Printing, Tort, Latin America, Contributory Liability, Vicarious Liability

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