Selling the rights to your 3D Models
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Not sure where to post this, so I guess I'll post it here for now.
A client has approached me with an offer to buy the rights to a Car I made in order to 3D print and potentially sell it. How should I go about pricing it? Should I tally up the hours it took me to complete and slap a dollar rate on it? It's a cartoony model of an existing vehicle, so should I be worried about the company flagging me for something? Should I charge extra since I selling the rights? What does that even mean in regards to my work?
I apologize if I sound like a novice, but this is my first time being asked this and I'm excited but nervous at the same time.
A client has approached me with an offer to buy the rights to a Car I made in order to 3D print and potentially sell it. How should I go about pricing it? Should I tally up the hours it took me to complete and slap a dollar rate on it? It's a cartoony model of an existing vehicle, so should I be worried about the company flagging me for something? Should I charge extra since I selling the rights? What does that even mean in regards to my work?
I apologize if I sound like a novice, but this is my first time being asked this and I'm excited but nervous at the same time.
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So best bet is to not sell anything with someone else's copyrighted work in it.
http://polycount.com/discussion/174378/bmw-suing-turbosquid-over-car-models#latest
It's generally OK to make a copy of an existing work. It's just not OK to make any kind of money from it. Whether reselling as a digital asset, putting ads on your site, etc.
I was looking for the same answer. Only I want to sell the rights to a model I made. Its a Harley clone! There are no Harley emblems on it. I believe they can not take action, as they would have to prove it was there design. I had a Honda Shadow with a V . Looked a lot wasn't. So it just looks like a Harley. LOL
Having watched months pass in negotiation with a large vehicle manufacturer over the number of slats in a truck grille I'd be a little bit less blasé about it.
If it's an original design that happens to look a bit like a harley you should be fine, if you made a model of a specific harley and took the badges off you probably aren't.
Particularly if you've also gone and admitted to doing so on the internet!