Looking for community views, as don’t want to go making accusations unfairly, especially as the user in question seems to be a legitimate designer (more followers and models than me on makerworld etc.).
I’ve come across two models - that appear very similar to my own, both in concept, appearance and I believe in the model itself.
I’ve downloaded their model and compared it my own originals - they are not the same, but appear uncannily similar - I suspect they took my model and did some basic simplification of it in meshmixer etc.
Would people consider that an unreasonable copy when not given with attribution? At what level of editing/simplification of an original model does it become acceptable?
However my nervousness is that the end of the day my model is of a flower - lots of people like flowers, and it is very possible if someone started modelling the same flower as me they’d end up with a very similar result… however I am quite suspicious.
I really don’t want to post links to the models in question in case its unfounded. But I’ve attached a screenshot of the raw models in fusion from my comparison of the two - my original is on the left, new one on the right.
What do you people think - should this be reported? Or best to give benefit of the doubt?
Scanned a real world daffodil with a revopoint Pop3, then repaired the scan and thickened it in meshmixer and then printed on my P1P. I’ve then done further work in meshmixer to split the model, add connector peg and make a longer stemed version.
Do you think scanning a physical natural object gives you some kind of copyright protection?
Reported as what?
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I have had some discussion on this as Reddit as well and I think I agree with the consensus view on there.
So as an update on my view:
Does seem high chance the person has edited my model. But they’ve changed it enough to be impossible to prove especially when it’s a generic item like a flower, and when they’ve spent the time editing it so much it’s at least not a lazy copy/ripoff.
Also life is too short so no point making a fuss, as long as people are getting to print and enjoy models that I’ve helped make in whatever small way then I’m happy 
No issue with what you’ve said, but just as a point - 3d scanning flowers is hard.
It takes me a long time to get a good scan and to spend time repairing it and editing it to make it 3d printable while trying to keep it as close to life like as possible.
I’m obviously not wanting to copyright a daffodil! But equally I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be a bit annoyed if someone takes my model and edit its (if they have) rather than having to go through the effort of scanning or modelling from scratch themselves.
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