Empowering Our Creators with New Commercial License Membership

That would be ideal - great point. In the short term, I’d be happy with a simple on/off switch per model, but I’d love to see something like that longer term.

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This seems like a nice way to do it.

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At the moment I personally don’t have any use for this, but I really like this idea and I hope it’s given consideration.

This is 100% going to happen. Let’s hope it’s one of the first things they sort out.

I haven’t set mine up yet, but I’ll probably do this. Create a collection “I’m touching your stuff” or whatever and fill it with only the models I want in my tier and then I’ll name the tier “Commercial license for the I’m touching your stuff collection”

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Tier names have a 30 char limit, IIRC.

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Didn’t know that, thanks for the heads up. I’ll get creative with it and figure something out :+1:

This kinda sounds awful… I’m trying to think of the benefits other than more money?

Surely tiers would cover this “these are tier 1 models, and these are tier 2 models”

Already happening over on reddit (though Redditors are a bit… special at times) they are convinced this is the verification can slippery slope, and forget to mention that thangs and printables have already been doing this, only bad if bambu does it I guess

I hope MakerWorld are seeing this one because it’s amazing

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I really wish they would bring the requirements of 200 followers down to something more reasonable.

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Something I’d really like to see is one of those point reward incentives for following new creators to encourage more follows overall. Follows haven’t really had a good use until the Community tab was added but once I began focusing on it I’ve definitely noticed how hard it is to grow followers, it doesn’t seem like many people care to follow even with several calls to action through out my models and bio.

Do the membership and boost blocks that you can add on model pages show up in the model page in Bambu Handy for anyone? I never thought to check before, but neither of them are showing up there for me.

Didn’t there used to be a place that showed (with alerts) when a creator you follow publishes a new model? I’m struggling to find that at the moment. Maybe it got replaced by Community? If so, that’s a big loss.

Hi,
Thanks a lot for this useful feedback.
Our original intention in introducing this icon was to assist creators in promoting your membership sales. However, we recognize that this may lead to some confusion among users, and we hope to offer creators greater flexibility when configuring your membership offerings. As a result, we will temporarily remove this icon.
In future updates, we plan to give users the ability to select which models to include in your commercial license membership sales.
We still recommend using the “membership” feature within the model description as the most effective way to increase your commercial license sales. Each and every model you post on MakerWorld will be a chance to advertise your amazing work,
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Thank you very much for your feedback. Let us know if this helps

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Thanks for the quick response! I can breathe easier knowing that users won’t try to sell prints of my remixes and fan art :slight_smile:

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We will hide this button first.
Then, we will make it an option for creators to determine whether to display this entry on the model page.

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We will consider this.
If the tiers is not ordered by its price, I’m afraid that users may be a bit confused when choosing tiers.

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Yeah, I can understand that. Maybe keeping them ordered by price is fine, but having one be the “default” that shows up when you click on the “Get Commercial Licence” button would be the better solution. That way the order stays the same, and the one that is displayed to the user isn’t automatically the lowest tier.

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Yes. That’s a good idea. Besides, maybe we need to add an “is commercial tier” option when creating membership tier, so we know which tier is commercial tier and can jump to the correct tier.

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One of the key thing worth mentioning is that this new feature goes extremely well with the Exclusive program. You had creators setting up commercial license sales on Patreon for their exclusive models, which is technically a grey area. Now, you can all simply do it at one platform. One more piece in dominating the 3D modeling business, good job guys.

That was never grey area as long as you followed the letter of exclusive model program: the requirement is that the files are hosted only on MakerWorld. Offering commercial licence for the anywhere else is ok. Sites like thangs could make a problem with that because thangs is essencially model hosting site (i haven’t checked it in depth, but I’ve seen some people’s exclusives there with clear statement that the actual files are hosted on MW, yet the ui was confusing)

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How about you add bulk editing and dynamic blocks so people can add this easier :slight_smile:

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Hello…

I hope I have understood the commercial license membership correctly.

I join a member for a monthly fee, where I then download the designs he offers and he gives me permission to print and sell the design.

So if he offers a BMW logo, for example, can I print and sell this logo without BMW subsequently taking me to court for violating copyright?

And actually, I would also be selling a product imitation commercially.

And since many of the designs offered here were created based on a png, svg file, I am simply assuming that there are some copyrighted templates here too.

Since it can now be expected that the authors of some design templates will look around here more in the future, I have deleted all my designs.

So in my opinion, there is still a lot of discussion to be done in this regard.