Let’s settle this like real men. A Texas chili cook-off. Winner takes all the beans.
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Beans? BEANS?!
Yeah, I screwed up on that one. It burns a little more as I was joking that another person had screwed theirs up and walked headfirst into the same issue.
My health is more an open secret than a thing most know. I don’t hide my issues, I do refer to them as it affects my ability to function in this world. It was also why I got back into 3D, it gives me something to do as the time counts down.
Plus, I am loud and when I go quiet, people will wonder why.
Thank you, although terminal rarely has a way back.
An issue I have with this situation is that if he didn’t copy your write-up, I don’t think there would be any case for a copyright violation. Based on those screenshots, his design is different than yours, and the general shape of the models is not new.
I know there are bad actors on MakerWorld that intentionally steal other people’s designs, and if his design on the spiral section and side contour was the same as yours I would have thought he was one of those people.
I believe that the person was inspired by your design and made something similar. But I also believe he likely didn’t realize that copying the text was a violation. That doesn’t excuse it, but I think a more appropriate response would have been for @MakerWorld to either tell him to remove the text, or remove the model and allow him to resubmit it without copying the text.
EDIT: I see that he was able to resubmit it.
My complaint was his words, his plagiarism, and never about his model.
That was upheld by MW as they have rules about plagiarism.
He wrote content he thought up and didn’t steal, it was allowed back, as it should be.
Theft is theft, the fact that the theft wasn’t the model doesn’t mean my copyright wasn’t stolen and doesn’t mean that theft should go unchallenged.
I think you may have missed the word-for-word, punctuation-for-punctuation copy of everything I wrote.
Examples as originally provided that it appears you have not read.
and also
The only things he changed were the Batman intro for a Spiderman one and the colours of the filaments.
He did duplicate my words.
I never suggested the model was a duplication, version or variation of my own.
I started as follows - ** [A new take on theft, they lifted my words and my written ‘voice’**.
The following things about your comment confuse me:
- You talk about the model isn’t the same, no claim was made that it was.
- You suggest the content was not the same despite having examples in front of you and the original screenshots to review
- You say you reviewed the screenshots and still missed it.
- You appear to imply that the written word has no protections, which they clearly do in almost every single country
Finally…
And we have bad actors that intentionally steal other people’s content.
You should value your written word as much as the law does on your behalf.
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I didn’t say the written content was the same, you misinterpreted what I said.
When I said:
I wasn’t saying that he didn’t copy your write-up. Reading what I said, I can see how it could be interpreted that way. I initially thought that the person wasn’t allowed to post the model anymore because he copied the text. What I meant was that if he alternatively posted the model without copying the text, it wouldn’t be a violation.
I think this shows that I wasn’t implying that written word has no protections.
I followed your exposé and found it quite interesting, first in that the other model poster is so lazy in an obvious rip-off of Malc’s work and secondly that MW actually could come to a conclusion after their “investigation.”
Twice reported the two Far Side cartoon models as copyright infringements to have both reports rejected. I decided that was the final & last times I played this “report a concern” game with MW. If a multi-year syndicated, world famous cartoon that the artist had signed, copyrighted and ran in hundreds of newspapers thru the years, could be lifted, modeled and posted without permission of the author or syndicate, and then reported as copyright violations and somehow MW can not see it, then it becomes a futile joke.
while there are international frameworks to facilitate the recognition of copyrights across borders, copyrights are fundamentally territorial. Protection, enforcement, and the specifics of the rights granted can vary from country to country.
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You know what grinds my gears even more is MW makes and breaks their own “Guidelines” every day when it suits them so essentially can take action on any given incident on this website. They pay the bills and ultimately need people coming back so they can keep on doing it, the more they drop the ball and let stuff slide the more people become jaded and leave.
It’s quite simple from where I stand, they have written enough flex in the Guidelines that they could nip this stuff in the bud if they chose to do so.