Last night I got hit with a copyright strike for one of my models. It was a mandala that I created from SVGs that my wife had purchased for her cricut/CNC machine. I appealed and was denied because apparently another user had uploaded a model created with the same SVGs. What bothered me is that the other users model had a flaw in the extrusion, so I get dinged with a copyright strike and mine was the more accurate rendition.
Then I thought maybe Makerworld just frowns on using CNC SVGs to create models at all, but that seems unlikely as two were just selected as a winners in the Valentine’s contest. Is there any official stance on this or is it just a matter of being the first to extrude the files is granted a copyright?
First to extrude is technically the creator of an original model, despite the ease. Not like Makerworld is cross-checking models against all of the SVG’s out there, to them it is an original creation.
I get it, but feels weird to unilaterally deny an appeal (and accuse a user of stealing a model) when the second model was created without knowledge of the first… and was done properly when the original was not. All of it feels very wrong.
Such as? Not sure I have a comprehensive list of what would be classified as junk vs worthy of modeling. I was basically taking files that we had used on our CNC and converting them to be 3d printable. (instead of cutting a bunch of layers and gluing/clamping them making them an assembly that is a single piece)
Obviously not a functional print (which I have also made) but I wouldn’t consider it junk either.