I am a TA in the art building and I was excited to learn that at the beginning of this semester we acquired a 3d printer. This seemed so futuristic and I was excited to learn how to use it and create things. The first program that we installed allowed us to access a database of already created objects that people were sharing. People knew that others would copy these objects. I was surprised however to see a lot of media material such as a Yoda miniature or a Pokemon. There are also such things as 3d scanners. Someone could hypothetically copy any action figure and start to reproduce the design as their own.