Nobody is Winning with the Current 3D Printing License

Sounds like your approaching this arguement from the point of someone who 3D prints.....Correct? 3D print isn't really an area I am particularly experienced in or very knowledgeable about but you seem to have disregarded any time and effort the artist has put into (their) model and you can only recount your own time and effort to correct them.

Perhaps....why not use that time to create the models yourself instead! Do you really think the prices for 3D model reflect the time and effort the Artist has put in? Is this the reason you buy them....perhaps? Its only when a model has multiple sale that you can even begin to recoupe its monetary value.

No one has put a gun to your head to buy from this site. From the point of view of an Artist here.......profiting from somebody elses time and skills leaves a bad taste in the mouth! If you sold prints, say on Etsy for example and you sold 10 or even a 100 who do you think would be out pocket?

Is there anyone looking at the licences? Or is it that the licenses somehow prevent the buyer from doing whatever they want with the model?

Some time ago I changed all the licenses of my models to the Custom type, in the license description it described that the buyer could print as many physical copies of the model as he wanted and then sell them. My idea was that this type of license would increase my sales.

The reality is that I noticed a significant drop in sales, I don't know if it was because of the license or why, but when I changed the licenses again, everything worked correctly again.

That's all I can tell you on the subject, kind regards!

I'm new here, but doesn't the royalty free license state that the buyer can do whatever they want with what they produce from the files (.STL for example). They just can't sell the files themselves? This is why I came to the board, to make sure I can buy files and sell the 3d printed products. Again, I am very new to this and want to make sure I would not be going against what the licensing allows, or the sellers wishes.

"Royalty Free License allows you to use the product without the need to pay royalties or other license fees for multiple uses, per volume sold, or some time period of use or sales. Products published with this license may not be sold, given, or assigned to another person or entity in the form it is downloaded from the site, but can be used in your commercial projects multiple times after paying for it just once.

This is, however, a non-exclusive license and the product remains the property of a seller for further distribution. Please, refer to legally binding General Terms and Conditions to learn more about Royalty Free License, other types of licenses and general rules applicable to all products.

Thanks

If there was away to police this where the artist would get royalties on every print sold, this would work. However, there would be little if any quality control. Some 3d printer item sellers just want to make a quick buck, by outputting the roughest and unprocessed print around.

For example, let's say a painter, paints a lovely landscape painting. Several sellers who have a scanner come around and offer the painter a royalty for every print they sell. Some sellers use poor inks and printers, and scanners that don't have a colour gamut that picks up the proper hues. Some customers are not satisfied with the reproduction, and won't buy any more prints, thinking the artist is to blame for the poor quality.

In the real world, the artist would go to a professional print shop that specializes in replicating paintings and arrange for artists proofs, along with a set number of prints.

In your world, it would be like the wild west, with no quality control, and dubious accounting.

You can always contact an artist and arrange a special contract for you to print out their work. I'm not certain how they would ensure that you would be honest in ensuring that all royalties would be paid, though. You could arrange a higher price to be set for buying the model outright where you would be able to print the models without any royalties.

"The solution is simple: put a Commercial 3D Printing license checkbox on all products, with a certain percentage increase from the base price, or a fixed premium. Anyone that buys a product with that license is entitled to sell 3D printed versions of it. DAZ Studio did this already."

Changing product's license and its price without seller's consent would be simply illegal. While i agree that cgtrader could introduce more flexible licenses alongside currently existing ones, but it should be seller's decision which license he (she) is willing to use and it can't be forced on everyone by unilateral decision from marketplace side.

What kind of sale of 3D prints can we talk about in the case of models for example, Aragorn or Frodo Baggins? Both names are registered active trademarks. With jewelry "very similar" to Cartier's products the situation is the same.

Optional 3D printing license on DAZ marketplace has a fixed price of 1.99$
What are the benefits for authors of models sold with this option?

Of course one can make a license whose price would increase depending on the number of printed models, i.e. a license only for home use, for physical items in the amount of 10 pieces, 100, 500, etc. but I doubt that such changes would significantly affect the income of model authors.

And in general, to change anything (especially radically) in the licensing on the marketplace in which uploaded such a huge number of models, the idea is very, very doubtful.