Comment on Etsy cracks down on 3D printed products — new rules exclude many 3D printed items from listings

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  sell things that you actually have the rights to print and sell.

  This would exclude the thousands of makers who subscribe to designers like Cinderwing3D, and have permission to print and sell her articulated dragon designs.

  It sounds like they do have the rights, and this policy is still causing problems for them.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, that part specifically is a bit braindead.

    It’s probably because they can’t be arsed to figure out who has the rights and who doesn’t, so they just loaded up the ban shotgun.

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it’s intentional

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you want to sell 3D printed stuff, sell it on an appropriate platform and for fuck’s sake, sell things that you actually have the rights to print and sell.

  I’m so relieved that there’s an appropriate platform!

  I need some brackets to mount a gadget I ebayed as a spare. The vendor included tapped holes for mounting, but never sold the brackets. About 3 designs out there offer a solid and reliable mounting solution.

  Each one a bit that would fit in a 1990 drugstore film cylinder, only 40c to being and us$71 shipping to the V3L, it seems.

  There is no library in my area still maintaining a running 3d printer. I have no contacts nerdier than me who have a working printer.

  Where is this place that I can get my brackets? I can’t justify a $250 printer just for 4 bracket pieces!

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are oodles of commercial 3D printing services that will run off whatever you send them for a price. Craftcloud, Shapeways, Xometry, etc.

    Or printathing.com, if you’d like to get hooked up with a private(ish) person to do it for you.

    Or just ask at any of the innumerable online spaces where people talk about 3D printing (like right here) and someone can probably do it for you, too.

    My exception is not to people printing things for others for a specific purpose if asked to. It’s against stealing other people’s work and cynically trying to turn it around for a profit, without putting any effort into it and probably implicitly passing it off as if it were your own work in the process. Likewise, I don’t object to someone designing their own thing and selling their own thing on Etsy. But just to put it into perspective I imagine most people would also rank it as Not Cool to go on Etsy and start trying to sell, say, just printouts random stuff you downloaded from DeviantArt.

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• tischbier@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re still allowing 3D printed items if the person selling is the origin of the model. At least that’s what I gathered from the article.

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  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you prove you’re the creator of a model without directly handing your IP over to this company?

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    • monkeyman512@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I assume that is about hitting duplicate items. If there are 100 people selling the EXACT same dragon, hit them all and sort out the details later.

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      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That doesn’t really answer the question and also introduces issues with situations like Bambu’s Creator’s Program (or whatever it’s called) where you can pay the model creator for the rights to sell the item. I don’t see why they need to target 3D prints specifically when Etsy is absolutely chock full of similar duplicates in other mediums. They’re just going to drive people away to a new site, which is fine I suppose, but seems incredibly short sighted.

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  • Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s sensible.

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