Comment on Did someone say public domain?
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months agoen.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.
snooggums@kbin.social 8 months ago
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.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
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.
snooggums@kbin.social 8 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.
rikudou@lemmings.world 8 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.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 8 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.