You as a designer retain all your intellectual property rights in your 3D design. By uploading your 3D design, you warrant that it is your original creation and not copied from any third party and/or entity. You warrant that your User Generated Content will not infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties. Should your User Generated Content nevertheless be found to be infringing and/or in violation of any law, you will defend Shapeways against third party claims, and be held liable for all (direct and indirect) damages and costs incurred by Shapeways with respect to such claims
By uploading your 3D design to the Website, you grant Shapeways a non-exclusive, royalty free worldwide transferable license on your design
only to:
(i) display it on the Shapeways Website;
(ii) use if for the manufacturing of your model in order to fulfill your order; and
(iii) use and modify it for the manufacturing of your model in order to fulfill the order of any other Website user.
Notwithstanding the above, if you do not want your 3D design to be displayed on the Shapeways Website, and\or ordered by other users, as stated in point (i) and (iii), you can indicate this during the upload procedure or change it via the model detail page of the 3D design.
With regard to such non-published 3D design, in order to protect third party intellectual property right owners who, in such case, may not be able to benefit from our
Notice-Take-Down Procedure, we retain the right to review and refuse any order when it, in our own discretion, appears to infringe third party intellectual property rights, or in our discretion the model does not comply with our
Content Policy.
By removing your 3D design from the Website you terminate all licenses granted to Shapeways under this agreement. Shapeways is however entitled to use your 3D design to fulfill orders of your 3D design that were placed before the removal ; and to use your 3D design for promotional purposes, which license shall terminate 6 months after the removal of your 3D design. 3D designs are only used for promotional purposes with your explicit consent.
Note, specific terms in the CoCreator section: As a customer of a CoCreator model, by providing specifications for a CoCreator model, you grant Shapeways a non-exclusive, royalty free worldwide transferable license on your specifications, with the right to sublicense, to use your specifications for any purpose.
Please note that any intellectual property right of a CoCreator model created by the Shapeways shop owner with the use of your specifications will vest in the shop owner who created the CoCreator model.
