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:
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>>
>> 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)
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> >>
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>

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