Intellectual property about Takraw Ball Toy by TaffGoch on SketchUp Library

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Hi,

I'm new in this comunity, and I would like to know if this model (Takraw Ball Toy) made by TaffGoch on the 3D SketchUp library is free of intellectual property and copyright. I would like to use the concept, I mean to recreate the same kind of model, to submit it in a Challenge.. I just want to be sure that I don't go against law !

 

Thanks a lot for any answers

 

Bye !

[TaffGoch]

The toy is commonly-available, on-the-market, from many sources (particularly, dog "chew-toy" makers.) I have a collection of several sizes & colors, that I've collected over-the-years.

My model is, simply, a digital 3D version of the real thing.

I wonder who would sue you, since Chinese factories churn them out, by the millions, for multiple U.S. and global distributors.

-Taff

[TaffGoch]

If you want to submit a digital 3D model, in some challenge (that you might conceivably win,) and propose to use someone else's labor, skill and effort, claimed as your own - why would you consider doing that?

Why would you do anything that you feel might be wrong, even if there is no "law" or "legal right" preventing it?  There is a difference between "legal" and "moral." (Just ask college students who get in trouble for plagiarism. They were so accustomed to being able to copy stuff, wholesale, from the internet, while in high-school, that they can't conceive of why it's wrong in higher academia.)

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Now, if you were truly able to reproduce the work, having the skills and geometric understanding to do so, then that's different. It would honestly be your own work. Even then, attribution of prior work & inspiration is always appreciated (and sometimes required -- for example, with patent applications.)

I don't intend to scold, considering that I have may misinterpreted your meaning (my apologies, if so.) I simply can not understand why this question comes up so often. 

Use your moral compass (internal or external) to guide your actions. If you are accountable only to man, then use man-made "legal" guidance. If you feel that you have accountability, higher than man, use "moral/ethical" reasoning.

Conditionally apologetic,

-Taff

[TaffGoch]

You might find the 3D-Warehouse "Terms of Service" to be of useful
"legal" guidance;

http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/3dwh/tos.html

...where it states, in part...

"You [the user] continue to own all intellectual property rights in
all content you submit to the Services. Using the Services does not
give you ownership of any intellectual property rights in the Services
themselves or other content you access. You may only use content from
the Services in accordance with these terms, and may not make any
other use of content from the Services unless you obtain permission
from its owner or are otherwise permitted by law."

...and...

"You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you
hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours."