You say that I have to write an appeal directly on the page where the reason for deleting the model is written. However, I cannot enter it there without inserting the images that the system requires of me. What other images are needed? We only made models of roads that Hot Wheels cars can drive on and that is a problem? I can easily delete all mentions of this brand from the articles, but unless I get to that point, it is not possible. I do not like your approach at all where you delete everything straight away. You should have informed me first and I would have definitely promptly made a correction. I am quite disappointed and you are certainly not building a good reputation by doing this, quite the opposite.
How should I file an appeal when it is not possible without proof images. What evidence is needed for that? Just read the articles and look at the models. But that would have to be done by a person and not by the sick AI that you use. Once again, I am very disappointed and especially since the children who participated in the models are also disappointed. How to solve this?
Use the name toy cars and repost your model?
Quick Reminder, this is a community forum. The chances are small that anyone from MW sees this.
Open a support ticket.
Open the files in your design software and take some screenshots. Send them in with the appeal.
Stop crying. The term âHot Wheelsâ is trademarked. You donât have the ability to use it. Yep, I lost 3500 points using Lego
As this is an IP issue, one from a large corporation, BambuLab has a clear position it takes.
- Buckle under almost no pressure
- Offer little or no opportunity to rebut the claim
- Provides no opportunity to rectify the issue prior to any actions
The chicken â â â â approach.
Untrue, it depends on its use.
If Mattel wants to stop him from using âHot Wheelsâ as advertisement for his model, they can. And they can dang sure do the same for anything else that uses that moniker
And in my opinion, Bambu should take a different approach. They should delete any model that uses a trademarked image/model or text.
There are exceptions to this, itâs actually quite complicated.
One successful use of a âborrowedâ trademark you have almost certainly already seen is 3rd party repair parts.
The real issue is that some websites donât properly check takedown requests, and provide little appeal process. I am not even sure if some sites are even checking if the takedown request is genuine.
You mean the âThis is what you legally have to do in order to still count under the safe harbour definition on the internetâ approach
Bambu doesnât gain anything by trying to argue fair use when it comes to names that are actual trademarks, they will never win that battle and they know if they donât remove it they open themselves up to being sued, just look at popmart trying to sue them over labubu models they removed when asked
When youâre infringing on someone elses rights you are rarely ever going to win and if you want to challenge that youâll have to take the company who asked for it to be removed to court, bambu isnât going to help you with that
And they do when its reported, they arenât able to pre-emptively police models as they donât know if you own a license to use the name or not, so they will wait until someone complains and then act accordingly
Hard agree. The swamp of IP knockoff stuff being shared for-free-but-not-really-free-as-demonstrated-time-and-time-again-by-people-valuing-points-as-currency-becuase-it-is is a dirty mess. Did you know what happened back when thingiverse pulled down lego? Everyone was bummed but noone got aggreived and disgruntled because no money was changing hands to begin with. Maybe a $50 contest winner.
I will partially agree.
Anyone else notice that the number one thing on trending is a repost of an UNO box that was taken down a few weeks ago? And the 4 or 5 others on the front page of trending?
Some companies support it, but I find it interesting that they are allowing those models considering the mattel takedowns were so recent.
Labubu is gone from MW, but still on Printables and some are even for sale on Thangs 
. Platforms are trying to benefit from well-known characters / trademarks as much as they can while it lasts.
Having each IP owner to suit all the platforms may not be feasible, but I wonder if they can someday join forces to file a mass action lawsuit.
Sure. But the point doesnt mean anything in this context. MW is not worried about what Printables is doing and vice versa. Mattel has made a large move remove their trademarks from MW, they have not done such with Printables.
Having these models up shows that MW is not enforcing the IP infringement that they have been notified about. That will lead to much higher penalties and maybe even a lawsuit. They can not claim ignorance anymore.
But if they at least gave me the opportunity to access the deleted models for a while and change the text, delete all the hotwheels and republish. I donât have a chance to click everything again, I canât even remember what belongs to what. If they put it in some archive and I can edit it there.
Iâm one of those who had those patterns removed!
Thatâs right!
And as you say, many are taking advantage of the situation, republishing my patterns, which, despite being reported by many users, are still there, getting points, prints, and downloads!
Ultimately, I believe, what mekerworld is interested in is the traffic of users who print, nothing else matters.
This is clearly my model, printed and re-uploaded, taking advantage of the fact that it is in high demand.
See all you need to do is change the text to read NO U instead, a reference to the uno reverse card that is copyright free
In America we are forced to encounter one trademarked product after another. We grow up playing with trademarked toys. We are taken on vacation to trademarked places, the restaurants we visit are trademarked, the drinks we drink are trademarks, even the television shows we watch are trademarked. One trademarked brand after another is forced into our consciousness through repeated advertisements. Yet we canât mention those trademarked products without being in violation of some rule or another. I canât walk into a grocery store without passing several Hot Wheels displays. Mattel sells a lot of Hot Wheels cars, but no accessories beyond their track, and even the track is rather limited.
Most of what people publish to places like MakerWorld does not compete with Mattel. There is a growing community of those who enjoy 1/64th scale modeling which is based on car culture as opposed to those who enjoy â â scale modeling which is based on train culture. Many of the models taken down over the Hot Wheels reference have been 1/64th scale dioramas and the like. They do not compete with Hot Wheels or violate their copyrights or trademarks. Mattel would lose in court, but who has the money to sue them?
Many years ago MIT trademarked a bunch of terms in the hopes that they could extort payments from those who sought to use those terms. One of them was âThree Dimensional Printer.â If their plan had gone thorough, every 3D printer company would have to pay tribute to MIT in order to call their 3D printer a 3D printer. However, no one spells out Three Dimensional. Rather everyone just says 3D, completely bypassing MITâs trademark claims.
Thomas Jefferson invented the moldboard plow and being the citizen of the world that he was, he freely distributed his design throughout the world. After Jeffersonâs death, seeing that there was no patent on the moldboard plow, John Deere applied for and received a patent on the moldboard plow and for many years held a near monopoly on the moldboard plow, forcing competitors to pay tribute to them.
Just imagine the turmoil that would occur if IKEA decided to do a trademark take down over the use of Skadis. Or what if Zack Freedman never properly registered Gridfinity and an unscrupulous actor came along, filed the paper work, found a friendly (bribable) judge to lend them legitimacy, and claimed ownership and forced everyone to capitulate?
I think you can mention those trademarked products, you just cant put those trademarks on your product.