Glovart is still stealing from MakerWorld

[MalcTheOracle]

@Makerworld this company is still stealing from our designers after you were alerted to their activities.

Here is your reply where you said your legal team was on it.

Another company stealing MakerWorld models

Thanks for the reminder. We’ve passed on this information along with other recent cases to our legal team and we assure you that we are taking actions to protect all of the models and designers in our community. As a rapidly growing website, we suspect these thefts to happen at a higher pace in the future and we kindly as that all of our members to help keep an eye out for similar suspicious cases. If you find any other websites that are actively stealing from MakerWorld, please do not hesitate…

https://glovart.com/

My previous post from back in September.

Another company stealing MakerWorld models

Yet another company is stealing and reselling models from MakerWorld. @makerworld are you working to stop this company? You will see lots of great models from all over MakerWorld being actively sold without permission. A few examples: There are far too many thefts right from the MakerWorld site. I recommend you all go and visit the site and see if your models have been stolen and are being resold. If anyone has given authority for their models to be resold, please provide the con…

This all assumes this company hasn’t obtained commercial licences, but, I know one designer who had many of his models stolen, no commercial agreement in place, he has managed to have them removed.

Two are obviously stolen from @Josh-3D

• https://glovart.com/product/wall-clock-in-loft-style/

Clock - Blade - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld

• https://glovart.com/product/wall-clock/

Clock - BowlNumbers - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld

Several from @ThreeD-Michael

Everyone, check to see if this company has stolen your models on their site.

[The_Big_Greek]

The things he stole from me were deleted. Who knows how many of them he sold without permission.

[Shawsie]

Sorry to hijack this thread, but I too have my model stolen from MW and is currently being sold on Amazon for $60ea !!! I had a Creative Commons licence forbidding commercial use etc etc. I’ve spoken to this guy online but he thinks it’s ok cos he made a couple of ‘minor’ changes (so he could print it correctly). I’ve also made my model ‘personal’ so it can’t be downloaded - very disappointed. My model was ONLY available on MW for personal use only. How do I contact MW about this? I’m going in circles to find a link or email to their legal team, support or office. TIA - Shawsie.

[MalcTheOracle]

Report him to Amazon.

MakerWorld will not do anything as they only get involved for Exclusive program models and your license choice means it could not be part of that program,

Your license clearly states it can’t be used commercially, the fact he made changes doesn’t change that, it just means he guilty of two things.

You will need to show the licence to Amazon (documented claim) and the correspondence where he admits it is your work. Given he said he changed it, he has stated it is yours.

[krellboy]

@Shawsie

I had a Creative Commons licence forbidding commercial use etc etc.

Instead of etc etc etc, exactly which license did you select? Don’t type the answer, copy the picture from your model and paste it into the message so I can see it.

And I’d like to thank you for using a CC license, please don’t let your single bad experience scare you away from them. He probably would have done the same thing with the standard license.

@Shawsie

How do I contact MW about this? I’m going in circles to find a link or email to their legal team, support or office.

This is not a makerworld problem nor do they profess to offer support in this area, so you shouldn’t expect (or even request) any help from them. That being said, they actually have in the past flexed a little muscle against another Chinese firm, but you should not expect any help. Again, you should not expect help.

My general advise would be to tread carefully, IP law, especially in other countries, is complex. I know your case seems straightforward to you but there are a lot of factors at play. People think “oh, the worst that can happen if I file a complaint with Etsy/Amazon/Ebay is that they ignore it”. That by far is not the worst thing that can happen.