Blender Market - a Blender exclusive marketplace from CG Cookie

There’ll be no exclusivity, so you can sell wherever you wish. If accepted as a vendor, and submitting products, then this is something you’ll want to notify us of. Any product that’s on another marketplace should probably be priced accordingly (unless there’s a good reason not to). This can be handled on a case-by-case basis.

I’m curious about one thing. Porn.

If someone were to submit, say, a collection of dildos, or characters clearly rigged for porn production, what would you do?
On one hand, as DAZ has proven, porn assets can be quite lucrative, and besides censorship is wrong. On the other, it might offend some of the more prudish users who might take their business elsewhere.

So, would you post the filth on your market, or would you rather be party to no less detestable censorship? :smiley:

Disclaimer: I don’t really care either way, I’m just curious. :slight_smile:

I cannot say that we’ve explicitly accounted for this type of product, but frankly most would likely get rejected :slight_smile:

In my opinion, creating an anything goes policy that allows X-rated content to allow people to fulfill their perverted fantasies would scream to the world that the market is desperate for money.

You don’t see Turbosquid or 3D Cafe feeling like they need that sort of junk to make a good profit, simply put, the limits of the type of content allowed should be the same as what’s already allowed on this forum (as in, nothing that can be truly considered explicit).

Actually porn is the only industry which makes money in the whole internet world…

So I must’ve been living under a rock when Amazon.com, Turbosquid, Facebook, and Google all declared bankruptcy, this sounds like something that someone addicted to that stuff and can’t stop thinking about it would say (because there’s been a real study that shows that it literally hijacks the mind like a drug and enslaves that person to an unhealthy obsession).

So if, unfortunately, we do see that sort of thing in the market, then it would be an imperative that they erect an age wall and get an .xxx domain instead of a .com or .org, and if the supposed ‘censorship’ argument is a complete black & white issue, also allow the selling of what some would dismiss as xenophobic, racist, and threatening content (because anything that suggests censorship and restriction of content is bad, right?).

I guarantee you that at least half of the community would boycott the website if it was decided that the gutter would be scraped to find revenue, and most professionals as of now really hate DAZ’s business model (focusing a lot more on selling sex than actually developing their software). Do you really want the money to come from professionals and talented artists or would you rather want it from the dark, seedy corners of the online world?

Don’t worry Ace Dragon, there won’t be XXX material on the market.

congrats.good effort.

what about military and weapons?
I for one clearly do not want to see Replicas from ww1 and ww2 on a store.

In Europe people are in many cases fine with human anatomy but military and weapons are another topic and not so welcomed…

could that please get addressed?

Also, no dangerous cars! Or unsanitary textures! :wink:

Also no cigarettes or drugs or alcohol, virtual addiction is bad!

Seriously though. I am pretty anti-gun myself but I don’t see the need to censor weapons from the internet. In regards to the porn issue I am pretty sure that they will probably allow nudity to a certain degree, just not the real XXX stuff.

@JonathanW, usually I am not the kind of person who makes feature requests. Being a potential buyer, it would be an important criterion for me to know how much of the money that I am paying will go to the Blender development fund. If e.g. two assets are almost identical and would fit, we may take the Blender development fund into account.

As elsewhere, it’s interesting to see that anything that implies violence is fine, but things that imply reproduction are not. Not making any judgements, just an observation.

well, the daz stuff is never directly pornographic. They are just models that happen to be attractive :wink:

Can I interrupt the porn talk for a few seconds. About 3d markets one of the biggest things sold there is car models and realistic models based on real products. How are you guys going to deal with the copyright issues surrounding this.

Impossible to check everything manually. There will probably be a report system.

EDIT: Maybe vendor ratings like on ebay for example?

Trademarked material (logos, names) will not be allowed. This is the case with basically all marketplaces. For example, you cannot submit a “Apple iPhone 5” for sale, but you could submit a “Smartphone”.

what??? what about turbosquid? don’t they allow stuff like that? if you mean that we have to change the name from iphone 5 to a smartphone… aren’t the chances that out model will get sold reduce? i mean the buyer would have to go through 100 pages of “smartphone” rather than just straightaway searching for “iphone 5” and get the thing? come on… even blendswap allows for “fan art”.

turbosquid seems to allow this though. I see tons of cars with logo and the brand phone logos and all. but maybe the operate in a different legal area from you guys. I also know some markets don’t allow this but this is always an iffy and grey area.

Fan art has an explicit non-commercial clause. This is stated quite clearly on Blendswap: http://www.blendswap.com/page/fan-art

As for Turbo Squid and trademarked work, this still holds true. By their license you cannot do it

c. Business Logos. You may NOT use Imagery in any Creation that is a trademark, servicemark, or business logo. This restriction is included because the owners of these types of Creations typically seek exclusivity on the use of the imagery in their Creation, which is incompatible with the non-exclusive license granted to you under this agreement.

That’s not to say that many, many people don’t. Turbosquid does not review every piece submitted, so there’s many, many license violations. For them it’s likely simpler to let it pass until companies file a Take Down request. At which point I’m sure Turbosquid will take the piece down. Shapeways works this. Envato marketplaces work this way.