Hello everyone! I didnt really think I’d have to do this but I need some help/guidance. A few months ago I designed this blackstone trash bag holder and posted it on makerworld as an exclusive model and didnt allow anyone to remix it/distribute my work. My uncle who is also on makerworld found this on amazon. It clearly uses ai edited photos of mine as its my porch and the ai threw burgers and veggies on the side tray of the Blackstone. The idea behind the holder isn’t that important to me as the blatant stealing on my images and 3d model. If they would’ve made their own I really wouldnt have that big of an issues. Any info/tips on how to get the listing removed? I dont want people profiting off my work. Thanks
You can start with Amazon’s report infringement form.
https://www.amazon.com/report/infringement/signin
This next bit might be hard for you to read, but unless you’ve gotten permission from Blackstone, you are blatantly stealing their logo design and you’ve been profiting off their work.
So, live by the sword and all that…
I alr filled that out. Just wasnt sure if they were really gonna do anything about it lol. As for the logo Im more than willing to die by the sword. I havent taken points out from any of my models and wont bat an eye if the listing gets taken down and my points from it removed. At the end of the day, I just do this stuff for fun 
I wouldn’t take the words of purists in this forum to heart.
You can find on maker world creations of Mickey Mouse, Fallout, Donald Duck, Lord of the Rings, and pretty much every other IP in existence.
And if you google them, you will find even more fan made art, stories and creations made around pretty much every famous IP there is.
■■■■, if we check close enough, we might even find people bashing you themselves using IP such as… Oh I don’t know: Sy, Bambu Labs, DJI or Momcozy without the explicit permission of IP owners and profiting from their work… Just some random examples that come to mind…
That is such a dumb take that comes up way too much.
Just because others are breaking a law, doesnt mean that you should too.
Trademark and copyright are serious. The only thing that protects you is the laziness of big companies to go after you.
Great job missing the whole point, but since you seem to want to do this, let’s do this.
What we’re talking about is using a logo in an actual design to increase the value or legitimacy of the design itself - like emblazoning the Blackstone logo prominently across an actual model.
That isn’t quiiiite the same thing as a model that doesn’t have the logo on it, but instead either makes mention of a trademarked name, or may include a picture of a trademarked item.
Mentioning a trademarked name in a text work? Typically not infringement. Depicting an actual logo on an actual product from the company but not reproducing it? Somewhat situational, but generally not infringement either. What are the actual damages in either case?
Oh, and Sy’s Peglock is an open source system for workshop organization. Kinda hard to make things for an open source project if you can’t name the project.
Now, the point you missed was because his model contains other’s IP, any IP claim he wants to make becomes more complicated, and the OP even accepted that comment with no issue.
I don’t know what your stake is in this discussion and I’m not sure what you were hoping to prove throwing this particular rock at me, but I’m gonna call it an abject failure and move on. Better luck next time.
At the very least “people living in glass houses should not be throwing rocks” principle applies here.
Don’t bash other people for quote: “blatantly stealing logo design and profiting off other people’s work” unless you yourself didn’t use any logo design or IP belonging to people or corporations.
As I know you yourself wouldn’t bash other people for “unauthorized use of logos”, when you yourself used logos of BambuLab, Anker, GoPro, etc. etc. etc.
Except… He’s not selling a product with a Blackstone logo, trying to falsely claim (or imply) that the product was manufactured by Blackstone. If anything - the Amazon listing he mentions does that.
His only “sin” is using the the Blackstone logo on a design, he is giving away for free. So he’s not profiting from it. No more than you “profit” from the name “momcozy” prominently appearing on a photo of a product you designed and hope people will download.
I’m not an IP lawyer, so I don’t know what the letter of the law says about designing a Mickey Mouse figurine for example. Is it a trademark violation? Is it copyright infringement? Is it a crime or a civil case? Does it apply only in the US or worldwide? I honestly don’t know.
But I wouldn’t call someone a “thief stealing other people’s work and profiting off their design”, just because he did something 90%+ of all MakerWorld designers do on a regular basis.
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Points on Makerworld have real monetary value, so there goes your “not selling” argument.
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There is a difference between enhancing the value of a design by including a logo in the design itself and giving CONTEXT to a design with a picture that shows a logo.
We know.
Again, I’ll repeat what I said last time.
I went out of my way to NOT insult him, and instead stuck to the substance of the issue. Apparently your paper thin skin couldn’t handle that, so I’m sorry you’re softer than ten-ply and my response to someone else rubbed you the wrong way. Now go away.
I see you like bolding words, so I’ll try to write it in a way maybe you can understand:
You are using proprietary IP and logos you do not have the rights to, to promote models you created. Said models are giving you points thus giving you real monetary value, which you’re gaining due to your unauthorized use of other people’s intellectual property.
As I previously said:
As to your “oh so funny” comment:
Google “Ad Hominem”.
Maybe you’ll learn a thing or two.
I missed this. Thanks!!!
I will wait after dinner and will taste a good Armagnac XO.
That looks like it would make a good album cover or at least a good band poster.
Really?
Now, if you said “never publish online at all, because someone will steal it” I might agree to a certain extent. I would hesitate to try and categorize a while country as “thieves”.
lol how’s the 1990’s doing? I ask, because it appears your knowledge of other cultures is frozen in time there as well
the intervening 40 years have shown the transition to complete vertical integration of product manufacturing, and are generations ahead of the world now, the spaceman has no need to steal from the caveman
So…nobody should upload models to MakerWorld ever?
Tell the truth, have you ever printed any models from MakerWorld?
Yikes. We’re just making nakedly bigoted statements today, hey?
The stealing is worldwide unfortunately from China to Timbuktu, USA.