oops - forgot to add, I cannot do this with anything that may carry a copyright...
Chris On 10/16/08, Chris Gutzmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A quick offer I am making to all deigners of free models to try and get > them some protection... This is still open for discussion as I am not sure > exactly how (or if) it will work. > > > > As some of you know, I have opened a cardmodel shop. Keeping people from > selling models that are given away for free is diffcult. If I sell any > models that belong to a designer I become an authorized reseller and have a > stake in the model sales. This gives me (and people I authroize to act on my > behalf) leverage to act on models being sold on ebay or given away on pirate > sites. Its difficult to get any kind of leverage on models that are purely > given away for free... > > I would like to offer a free service to all designers. I call it EFDP - > Ecardmodels Free Download Protection. Any designer that wants to aprticipate > is welcome and it wont cost a penny. I would like to offer their downloads > on my site for a fee - something low like 99 cents. I would imagine I will > not sell a single one. At least I hope I dont as they are offered for free > on the designers site. The .99 cent fee is tohelp offset the costs of > hosting and bandwidth if anyone does happen to buy one of the models. If the > designer also has paid models for sale with me they will get their share of > the sale as usual. However if a designer is only having me host their free > models then the profits would go purely towards the hosting fees. I dont > plan on making anything from this but I want to offer it to help protect the > designers intellectual properties. > > This of course does not change how they choose to share any of their > models. > > Also keep in mind that adding these models to the shop would be a second > priority to adding paid models. I am stretched pretty thin as it is... > > What do you guys think? > Thanks > Chris > > On 10/16/08, Joy Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> He's selling models from Canon and others, too. >> >> >> > From: alienspapercraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> >> > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:06:47 -0700 (PDT) >> > To: Papermodels II <[email protected]> >> > Subject: [Papermodels II 32097] Pirates - again >> > >> > >> > Hi to all...i´ve been noticed about pirate activity....there is a >> > thread i ZEALOT hobby forum about this pages....EBAY >> > mostly......please check it.... >> > >> > http://www.zealot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=163168 >> > >> > >> > ...Jan (Alienspapercraft) >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
