Someone along the way decided to simply swipe a design off the internet - mine - instead of creating something new, and now who knows how many people are out there having paid licensing fees for wing files they thought were legit and won’t be able to use. This is incredibly frustrating and disappointing, since 3DUniverse appears to be a fairly big company with well known clients, and they claim that all their designing is done in-house from concept to completion. Well, he was right about one thing, it as of now is still available in a pack for a Pixie character and what’s worse is it has an extended license available to allow customers to do exactly what this seller did, and sell 2D renders of all the content >:( I then got an angry message from the seller, telling me it’s certainly NOT my content, because he purchased it from 3DUniverse on DAZ3D! Most of the time, stock providers don’t allow their customers to simply redistribute the same stock, so whenever I see sellers offering mostly other people’s content my alarm bells go off. I left a negative review, because not only was my design in there but I recognize a few others of these wings as well, from stock I’ve seen offered by other sellers. I purchased a set of the wing pack just to make sure, and it was definitely a copy of my Titania wings - a design that I also offer digital files of myself, so this was in direct competition with my own product! I opened it up and sure enough, my Titania wings had been copied in a $2 pack of wing png files :/
It happened again, of course, I was minding my own business on Etsy just browsing for gift ideas and saw that one of the things in the “things you might like” section of the home page had a very familiar silhouette. I’m taking it on good faith that is indeed where it was first found, though there is no hard evidence or receipt, so this is where this issue ends with 3DUniverse, however I will still be demanding removal of any copies of the wings being redistributed that were created with the infringed content in the Mythical Pixie package via the extended license that was offered. They’ve informed me that the copy of my design was first obtained through, however, it can no longer be found on that site.
After sending a C&D to 3DUniverse, we came to an agreement and the infringing content has been removed from the marketplace and they have been very amicable, which I appreciate!
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