• WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
        81·
        11 months ago

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

    • unexposedhazardEnglish
      516·
      11 months ago

      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?

        • unexposedhazardEnglish
          89·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • snooggums@kbin.social
            19·
            11 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.

            • unexposedhazardEnglish
              31·
              11 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
                5·
                11 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_Sage@lemmings.worldOPEnglish
                4·
                11 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.xyzEnglish
                2·
                11 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.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      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.