I’ve been planning out how or basement will look when finished and got to thinking about how our furniture would look in there. Whenever my main computer decides it wants to work again I planned on making an archviz of it. I also planned on reusing some of the assets in a game. Sone furniture has a name with it and isn’t just “leather couch #2463;” so I wondered, is furniture design copyrighted similar to cars? If I made a 3D replica and put it into something, would there be some copyright law against that?
Furniture may have something called a ‘design patent’. It’s not quite the same thing as a copyright, and there are different laws (both statutory and case law) that apply to design patents. Since cars have design patents, not copyrights, it is similar in that regard.
If you do it for yourself with no commercial or harmful intent… then you are good to go. If you’re good enough they will call you 
Remember bicycles?
2010
2012
Not really. What are you taking about?
1st he made a Porsche shell with bikes in it (2010).
http://awesomobile.com/cardboard-porsche/
2nd was Ferrari in 2012. Which was exhibitioned at the museum of art in Linz (valued/price at 1.5 milion$).
Extreme cases of what can be done/replicated as DIY (furniture, vehicles, tools, objects…).
If you are not commercializing, your work is your free choice.
Don’t know about the first one, but the link for the second one specifically says:
the design is developed from the idea of mimicking a sports car and is not a copy of an existing car model.
The same may well be true of the first one, or the artist may have contacted Porsche and gotten permission to do the work. @burnin: Do you know that he had not?
Ok. Correction on statement… those objects are mimicking supercars. Same, one can mimic everything. It’s an artistic practice, or if you like, an exercise in skill and development for personal goal.
mimic - “To copy or imitate closely…”
I assume it happened to him also.
Thanks for all the phishes. My bad for not using a ‘proper’ word. Just shows with what one has to deal with :no:
