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Did someone say public domain? (i.imgur.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Steambench Willie

[–] all4one 12 points 10 months ago

I was going to stay steamboat benchy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Are you going to sell it?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Planning to sell the prints.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Nice. Otherwise it wouldn't matter if it was public domain or not.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well considering he said "public domain" in the title, i hope it will be free lol

Edit: oooh you meant sell physical prints not the 3D model?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's not what public domain means.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain "The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply."

It would mean that anyone could legally redistribute the .stl files meaning it would be effectively free. So yes, that is exactly what that means.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, you can still sell things you made based on things in the public domain. Anyone can make things in the public domain and sell them. They just can't be stopped from selling or giving away for free because there are no exclusive rights to distribution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah mb i thought they meant sell the 3D model files, because even if you could theoretically sell those, nothing would prevent spreading them for free.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

People sell all kinds of things that are based on things in the public domain, because people are paying for someone else to go through the steps of creating it. Creating new works based on something in the public domain, like a 3D model of a mouse that is in the public domain, is a new work that can be copyrighted.

This person could sell the 3D files they created because creating the 3D files is a new creation. Someone else could also create the exact same 3D file from scratch and this person could not claim copyright because the subject of the 3D file is in the public domain.

Anyone can copy the Disney film version outright because the film is in the public domain.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That's not how it works. If I make a new work based on something in the public domain, your work is copyrighted. No one can copy your 3D model, unless your license allows it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Only the original is public domain, what you do based on it isn't.

To keep the example Disney, Alice in Wonderland, the book, is public domain. So is One Thousand and One Nights, the story Aladdin makes use of. The films Disney made adapting them are not.
You can create your own adaptation of the books, or even just reprint them as is, but you can't resell or modify the Disney versions.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

YoU wOuLdNt DoWnLoAd A BoAt? Lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Great print

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is fantastic. Is the file hosted anywhere?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2000773 - I had to fix the STLs a bit because they're simply invalid and at least PrusaSlicer doesn't really know what to do with them. My edited versions are not anywhere yet.

Beware that the design seems to be a work in progress that was abandoned, for example the moving mechanism doesn't work at all.