3DBenchy Starts Enforcing Its No Derivatives License
3DBenchy Starts Enforcing Its No Derivatives License
Nobody likes reading the fine print, least of all when you’re just downloading some 3D model. While printing a copy for personal use this is rarely an issue, things can get a lot more complic…
Sounds like a good time for a whole new benchmark model to rise to the new standard.
I would actually suggest to make this new benchmark as close as possible to the original design as a middle finger to these idiots.
Any 3D printing lawyer interested in creating a 4D benchy? Also the same benchy but with just enough modifications to be legally safe?
That's not how copyright works. Copyright is a legal concept, not a technological or physical one. If the intent was to be inspired by a 3DBenchy and it's not "transformative" (as in, into a different medium from a 3D model entirely), it's infringing. It doesn't matter how many vertices in the mesh are different if the person making it started with a 3DBenchy in mind.
At best, if your intent is to mock the original, you try to argue that it's parody and thus fair use, but it would still very definitely be a derivative work regardless. Any further downstream modifications would thus also be assumed to be infringing the copyright of the original unless they were (successfully) claimed to be parody too.
Fuck NTI group, they killed Creative Tools and now they're copyright trolling makers
Stupid fuckers. I hope nobody uses the benchy any more.
Just build a new tugboat but make it .5mm smaller or bigger...heck make it both, .5mm less tall and .5mm longer, call it 3DBonchy and make it public.
A lot of people are now sharing the boaty model as a replacement https://makerworld.com/models/972949
Printables, thingiverse et al should just remove benchy. Then they won't have to worry about copies.