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Post by lightning on Feb 2, 2016 11:12:36 GMT -9
Just read this thread and was a little shocked to hear that you cannot sell studio format cut-files. I wanted to package them into the papermodel set which I do want to sell. I guess one has to take them out of the commercial papermodel set and distribute them separately?
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Feb 2, 2016 12:02:40 GMT -9
I don't believe that's an issue - bundling the cutfiles in with your product. Many people do. I believe they really just don't want you setting up a cutfile storefront, and they don't want you selling JUST cutfiles. They want to avoid people cutting (pardon the pun) in on their own storefront business. That's just my 2ยข and of course, I am very much not a lawyer.
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Post by lightning on Feb 2, 2016 12:07:31 GMT -9
I guess I could try it bundled and then take it apart IF they contact me. From what I have seen, the target customer on their store is another demographic.
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Post by oldschooldm on Feb 2, 2016 12:19:34 GMT -9
I will repeat what I said in the thread there: "People can make cut-files of original content and give them away with their for-sale products all they like. There is no ownership of a file format." Silhouette America just wants as much stuff on their marketplace as possible. If you want to sell something just to cutter-owners, definitely put it on their marketplace - it's the best choice no matter what the IP issues. To my knowledge there has never been a Cease and Desist against one of our paper-terrain/mini builders who makes cut-files available with their products. It would be insane to do so, as the cut-files (and their creators) sell a large number of Silhouette machines. Having a huge volunteer marketing arm for your company turn against you would be colossally stupid. Most companies that initially did that (in the 1990s) quickly reversed positions, and eventually learned to tap that potential. We call it "croudsourcing" now. Proof: TSR (D&D) went from lock-down to OGL with 3e, and now again with 5e. Worry not. Just pick the market that's right for your product. The reasons to include (or not) cutfiles with your bundle should be based on other issues. fatdragontom avoids the issue entirely by not generating them and letting the community do it (usually during the final development stage) then adding them to a special page, bravesirkevin distributes them separately (which he's posted about before), still some others make them a separate file to download from OBS.
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Post by lightning on Feb 3, 2016 1:15:01 GMT -9
I agree, it would not make sense to scare away people who create a market for selling cutters, but then again I have seen weird legal constructions in my life, so I just wanted to make sure. Thanks oldschooldm, I will stop worrying now
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Post by trisharella1 on May 10, 2017 7:00:45 GMT -9
Studio 3 is the proprietary format for Silhouette Studio. This format cannot be used by any other software. If you print to PDF from Silhouette Studio, you will get a raster image rather than a vector image, and therefore the image would need to be traced or vectorized in other software. You can, however, use the free online converter to convert 10 files a day for free from Studio, Studio3, or GSD to SVG format. This might be the go around you need. www.ideas-r-us-software.uk/FileConverters/SilhouetteStudioConverter.aspx
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Post by oldschooldm on May 10, 2017 13:33:37 GMT -9
Studio 3 is the proprietary format for Silhouette Studio. Again, this is irrelevant to the issue at hand. You can distribute your own intellectual property any way you wish. Using a company's software and saving files does NOT grant that company any proprietary rights over your intellectual property. If you're not writing code to generate/read a proprietary format (or using unauthorized tools to work around other company's format restrictions) you aren't in the *usual* area people run into trouble.
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