Then you’ve answered your own question of “Why does the site allow changing the license after publication of a model?”.
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The license has to be redistributed with the work. If I get a copy from someone, I automatically get the same license they did.
THAT’S THE POINT!
A creator can change licence which means that people who haven’t yet obtained the item with the old licence, now get the new licence which might be more or less restrictive.
The site allows the creator the freedom required to change the licence.
If you get the item from someone who could distribute the item with the licence then it’s ok too!
Everybody in the thread answered your concerns, but let me repeat: if you get the model for commercial purposes with CC licence that allows commercial use and then the creator changes licence the creator had the very right to do so AND you have the right to use the model with the old licence you’ve got it with. The CYA way is to get a screenshot with date and prooobably something like webarchive to get exact snapshot of the model’s site. And if you want to cover your base throughly just ask the model creator something like “hey i like your model, i see it’s licence allows commercial use, i want to make sure it’s ok with you if i sell prints” and if they say “yes” then you’re 100% in the clear even if later they change licence.
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you get does that, and it is entirely possible that you won’t be able to obtain the same license that they have.
The license has to be redistributed with the work. If I get a copy from someone, I automatically get the same license they did.
By “they” I meant the license other people had that you want to use, not the license of where you obtained your copy. I’ll make it clearer:
No. Obtaining a copy of a copyrighted work does not atomically grant you a license to use that work, even if other people have the right to use that work under a CC license. Only the license you get does that, and it is entirely possible that you won’t be able to obtain the same license that someone else has.
What determines the license is the license you get, not somebody else’s license. It doesn’t matter that something was distributed under a different license at one time. What matters is your license.
Well, creative people are creative and rarely know what they are signing or care about. So in all cases, direct contact with creative people always gives headache only.
Who can open a Makerworld account? What are the requirement? Isn’t it the case that every email address, whether real or not, can open an account? Who is responsible if you continue to develop based on an unfairly granted license? Maybe he didn’t even forgive unfairly because he wanted to, but because he simply didn’t have the knowledge…But who is responsible for your further development or further published variants based on your model? What do you do when the other person has disappeared from the face of earth?
Wors? It can become even better. He will sell it as an exclusive license and the new owner thinks he has the sole rights… The old copyrightholder is gone and you only talk to the new how will get his right thure or is falling out of the blue since you still can confirme it that he did what he did if you ever find the first one again…
Or a copyright is stolen and it is not only sold out of Esty but they start selling exclusive licenses and the new owners then come to you with registered copyrights because they thought they could…
The best thing that ever happened to me: A copy right infringement in 2020 based on a copy right registered in 2016 on the claiming side on an upload I did in 2012 - what they didn’t know was that the non-exclusive publication right was bought by me from a large company in California and the I signed contract I still had. The offending account was then closed very quickly,
I would be against this. There will be people who don’t understand licenses that think “oh, look, this was offered under a less restrictive license at one time, therefore I can use the less restrictive license”.
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MW could invest some time and money to implement this, but it would be a waste.
Who is going to stop a designer to just remove the original design and re-uploaded the model as a new design with a different license?
There’s still many ways to get around restrictions.
Maybe they should log changes backend. incase there is ever a dispute
There are. If the license of a source model changes to something that doesn’t allows remix anymore.
Remixes done before that change aren’t removed and there is a little message over the remix listing stating that those remixes are compliant with the previous license
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