MakerWorld Exclusive & commercial license

[A_ilterish]

Hello everyone, I’m A_ilterish and I’ve been uploading my designs to MakerWorld for almost a year, I would like to thank everyone who has supported me in this process, today I would like to ask you about the Commercial license, many people ask if some of my designs have a commercial license and since I have included most of my designs in the MakerWorld Exclusive Program, I would like to know if I can give a commercial license on other platforms such as Patreon, if not, it would be a loss for me to include my work in the Exclusive program. I also asked MakerWorld officials about the issue, but I did not get a clear answer.

Thank you in advance for your answers.

[Johnny_Bit]

Makerworld exclusive model program stipulates that the model needs to be hosted only on makerworld. They do not prohibit offering commercial licences for exclusive models as long as the files are only hosted on makerworld.

[A_ilterish]

Does this mean I can sell the exclusive models on Patreon and other platforms by including them in a commercial license?

[3D_Paint_Lab]

As a designer, I am also curious about this process. I hope bamboo will provide an answer to this as soon as possible.

[Johnny_Bit]

Dunno what you mean by “sell” here, but based on experience with designers on Patreon as well as their stance regarding links to external sites:

Latest MakerWorld update

Hi Maxx, Thank you for asking and providing us a chance to explain and elaborate on our rules regarding advertising. We will try to be as clear and specific as possible. Clearly prohibited: Obvious advertising behavior : There is obvious malicious advertising in the model nickname, picture, or description: (for example: QR codes in model photos, or sponsor contents in model descriptions.) Upload incomplete print files or profiles : Only uploading part of the model or only upload model pictur…

it’s clear they’re ok with patreon.

So - if you are offering a commercial licence for your models, and the files are NOT hosted on external sites but only on MakerWorld, then you’re in the clear regarding Exclusive Model Program.

[h3li0]

hey hey,

So the models you have in exclusive can not be posted anywhere else (printables, thangs, cults3d, patreon, etc…)

you can grant commercial license for users to sell the prints of your designs, but the files can only be hosted here in makerworld.

for you to be able to post on all platforms, those designs cannot be exclusive

[A_ilterish]

This is interesting, So those who want to buy it need to give the commercial license from the patreon and download the file from MakerWorld ?

[A_ilterish]

Hey, This is really interesting.

[Johnny_Bit]

Yes, that’s how that works.

Many designers have it set up so that users buy say ‘commercial tier’ patreon package and that covers commercial licence for designer’s models downloaded from ANYWHERE. And that allows model to be licenced for commercial use (for prints, not for selling the model files) and hosting on MakerWorld under exclusive model program.

To reiterate:
Model MUST be hosted on makerworld, nowhere else
The patreon or any other selling of models is just for prints, not files of the model.

[duegustibus]

What i don’t understand is why using the exclusive program, I can’t offer the model for free commercial use. If its hosted only by makerworld, why I cannot give it with free commercial print selling rights (not digital) ?

It would be very useful to allow this, since some marketing models prefers to offer models with free commercial rights and earn more points for the increased exposure of the commercial rights, instead of earning by selling licenses, while keeping them in the makerworld ecosystem.

Can someone (even from bambulab) explain the reason?

[PrinterMcgee]

@duegustibus

What i don’t understand is why using the exclusive program, I can’t offer the model for free commercial use.

You can. All the exclusive program prohibits is posting the model files on other platforms. It doesn’t affect physical prints at all.

[duegustibus]

I asked that to MakerWorld support and they firstly answered like this, then, when I asked again because of some doubts, they told I can’t use it for free commercial use models even if it refers only to printed models. Also, it makes confusion to the users that wants to use my models because they see in the description that i offer that model with free commercial license, but they also see the Makerworld Exclusive License badge which says they can’t…. and I receive a lot of comments from users asking me if they can really use it for commercial purposes or not.

I think Bambulab should clarify that to us (creators) and if they confirm that we can use the makerworld exclusive program for models that we want to distribute with free commercial license (meant for the printed models) they should clarify on the Makerworld Exclusive License badges that that terms refers only to the digital files and not the printed files to avoid confusion to us and to the users.