Hi i just found 2 people selling one of my models on ebay . what should i do in this case . just contact them on ebay or get in touch with makerworld as its an exclusive ?
This is creator support terms: Creator Support Terms - MakerWorld
As you can see this only applies to very limited amount of models meeting certain criteria and is still limited to up to 5 uses per year.
Treat this as any commercial licence infrigement - contact them to have it taken down, contact ebay to report ip violation, lawyer up…
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ok cheers i will contact them first then .
As a heads up, MW won’t actually do squat, i have someone who uploaded an exclusive model and MW wouldn’t help because it wasn’t a site they deal with and ebay wouldn’t do anything because they didn’t believe i owned the copyright given it was styled after a now discontinued console
Currently trying to get the images removed as they did use my own images for their listing but even trying to prove i own the images despite sending them the originals with intact meta data is harder than trying to squeeze blood from a stone
Actually Ebay has a removal tool, called the Vero Program.
What I do is first contact the seller, give him / her a few days to respond.
If they do not respond I use the Vero program tool to get the listing removed.
Be sure you tick the right option for copyrighted material and give a decent explanation.
Same goes for Temu and Etsy, they also have (very good) removal tools.
I have had to report on eBay before. Follow instructions on their Vero page.
It took me five weeks and multiple reopened tickets because the AI made the wrong decisions and just kept closing everything.
So I would strongly argue that Etsy is really bad in this regard. This is one of those places where you can only communicate with bots and their tools.