Re:Foiling Electric Boat
by sandworm101 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:29AM
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>> You can also easily "clone" other boats by taking a mold of the hull.
Be careful about this. In a truly strange exception, american boat hulls are protected by US copyright law... the dreaded DMCA.
"Title V of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act, provides sui generis protection for an “original design of a useful article” (where “useful article” is limited to boat hulls)."
Be careful about this. In a truly strange exception, american boat hulls are protected by US copyright law... the dreaded DMCA.
"Title V of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act, provides sui generis protection for an “original design of a useful article” (where “useful article” is limited to boat hulls)."
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/vessel_hull_design_protectio...