Originally shared by Marcus Wolschon Aparently a user named "NextCopter" has taken at least

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Originally shared by Marcus Wolschon

Aparently a user named “NextCopter” has taken at least one of my @Creative_Commons NON-COMMERCIAL designs and is offering it on @Shapeways .

  • selling physical copies of my design published as NC
  • displaying my design as automatically rendered 3D view (no physical object) to advertise this sale
  • no attribution of any kind
  • usage of my photos that I did not license at all

Currently waiting for more details and action from the Shapeways abuse department.

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Ugh oh! It’s a shame for people to not only steal your work, but to pass it off as their own.

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Not just mine.
I’ve seen scores of Thingiverse CC-BY projects from different designers sold there and not a single one has attribution or different photos/renderings.

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Unfortunately there are those that think Creative Commons has no enforceable value and we are not necessarily in a position, financially, to pursue them through legal channels. The best that can be done is to get their objects removed from sale - as you are doing. No doubt the offender will soon be back under another pseudonym after this is done.

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The same shapeways user has the ubiquitous Yoda bust from Thingiverse, and a very familiar looking Raspberry Pi case as well, all without any indication that he’s not the designer. I don’t immediately recognize the rest, but wouldn’t be at all surprised to find they’re all Thingiverse designs from other designers as well.

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If the user turns out to be German (or at least European), go and visit a lawyer. Those that specialize in copyright and intellectual property can work out an appropriate invoice and help you enforce it, usually at no cost to you.

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I had about a dozen people copying my hall sensor endstop, and all “forgot” to mention the original design by MaukCC.
as a result everything I do now is also NC.
And it will be enforced.

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@Thomas_Sanladerer , every day…every damn day I hear something about Germany that just simply makes me think it’s a place full of people who actually know wtf they’re doing.

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Btw, if you have a by-nc-sa license without a waiver, shapeways is not allowed to sell it either.

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@ThantiK naw, we still have plenty of idiots running the country.

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Doesn’t every country?

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Great, another one by a user named
“Svenstead”.
Also without attribution, commercial despite the NC license and without a share alike download option.