This person is selling one of my designs and then I looked at their shop, I found a lot more popular designs from different creators being sold there. This person doesn’t have permission to sell my stuff so I’ll assume they’re not legally selling anything. Designs from collectorcraft, Sabre dynamic…just to name a couple that I recognize. I thought I’d share it here son the rightful owners can reach out or file claims…
PSA I guess
Good find. I forwarded it to Sabre Dynamics.
I have also messaged this user about doing such things - no response from them on etsy. Some of their designs are obvious copies of prints from thingiverse or printables - such as this one -Printables however, that one states “commercial use” is allowed. The ones to be concerned with is like OP who have not authorized “commercial use” of their designs.
one example of using a print with a “NO” for commercial use is this one Printables and on their etsy site here Baby Groot Plant Holder, Seedlings, Groot Design - Etsy
the only allowable reason should be if the etsy user is the same user as the printables user.
You can report the listing to Esty and they will take it down. They don’t investigate IP claims. Their approach is simple. If someone makes a claim against a listing, they take it down no questions asked. The seller has to prove it’s theirs to get it relisted. Sort of sucks for legit items sellers have, but that’s the way Etsy plays the game.
they replied in the typical fashion - I guess they think I am a computer shop.
As if scanning something suddenly makes it fair game…
“i made a scan of money and printed it out. It’s now legal tender”
Start embedding your logo/copyright into the print in difficult way to edit. This will at least deter off, they are lazy - steal model STL and just print. I have been doing that for all the models. People usually trying to find a fast way to make money, no different from a thief trying to find the easier way to steal and fast. Too much trouble they give up, not worth the effort.
Strang reply, considering they state…
All models used for printing have been strictly licensed under the undersigned to the undersigned.
These quite lazy pirates are the main reason I no longer publish my vital creations or provide entries for contests anywhere.
A few years ago I had a user complaining the ■■■■ out of me claiming I am just trying to rip everyone off because I stole the design from someone else who is selling them for half the price.
Needless to say it was a copycat that created the anger.
Back then it was not as easy to get YOUR designs taken down on sites where a thief posted them as their own creation.
And based on the nicely listed amount of paid download it was rather obvious the culprit made well over $4000US until the stuff was taken down for good - about a year too late.
Posting your creation in a place that offers a license is only of help in regards to making claims against those stealing our designs but it does not offer any PREVENTION.
Worse still: Those site offering your stolen good won’t provide a compensation for your losses, won’t even make the thief pay back what was stolen.
I tried for a while to fix this by embedding a logo into my designs, usually something tiny hiding INSIDE the model.
With that failing as bad as the rest of the measures I decided it is not worth sharing my designs unless for the ones I share for free anyway.
The final blow came for me when one of my accounts got leaked out through a data breach.
Did not use it for a few months, did not get any Email from the hoster about them having been hacked either.
By the time I got the access to my models back and started checking I found them all listed on other sites and by about 5 different user names.
When I tried to state my losses and made a claim to get compensated as part of their data breach my account was suspended, still is toady…
I learned my lesson and you won’t find any meaningful designs published by me that are never than 4 years…
we do share some of our files but we make them pay for them to download them - they can set the donation amount even but it isn’t for free. We do state “non-commercial” but nothing can stop them - we see many of ours end up on eBay and etsy - some with our name still on them while the seller claims its their design…
Ive always wondered if people do actually have the designs copyrighted or just claim it.
I read: "I am lazy and have no skills, that is the justification of my theft, of your work. No Italians have had skill since the 1500s. "
Sounds like a transplant.
Report in etsy… do it till taken down. Does no good to contact the seller…
Etsy is starting to remind me of the early days of Ebay.
All original works are automatically “copyrighted”, there is no legal reason to include a copyright notation. The primary reason is to inform the uninformed.
I wonder how he makes money? 12 Euros for a 15x15x15cm color(ed) print?
Doesn’t pay for machine and materials IMHO.
Hi, how ?
I found three sellers that sell one of my creation (one even use my photos !), I used the Etsy portal to report it, sent link of my model page with the non-commercial licence and link of their products, they rejected it !
Post the links to it and your proof so we can spam the Etsy report button.
Maybe it just takes a “squeaky wheel”.