Newbie
Good day
I may be completely wrong, but here is my point of view:
- The designer sells a product in flat, graphic form. The developments works and graphics belongs to him. It is important, that he sells it as a model (to be worked and modified, adding intellectual and physical content).
- To make a copy (CD, scan, color copy etc.) and to distribute as it is without designer agreement is certainly an infringement.
- When you make the model, you modify it on a unique way. Two models made even by the same person will not be exactly the same.
Making the model you destroy the original designer work making it impossible to copy later by the new owner (protecting designer property).
Sale represents payment for additional work of the maker, materials and his skills independent of those of the designer. In this sense the designer work is not sold anymore, but something containing it, in a small part.
- It is important, that giving or selling the model designer authorizes to make it, so to modify it without his personal implication. Total work does not belongs to him anymore.
- At the moment of sale the designer should specify, that any modification of his works is forbidden in order to make the sale illegal, which is a nonsense because this forbids the making of the model.
- Only touchy part is when the model contains a corporation logo. This should be left separate, leaving to the new order to dispose of.
From my part I would anyways asked for permission if the model is free.
"Par politesse".
B. Hamerski