We’ve put together a license that is simple and easy to understand describing your rights to the 3D printable digital designs available in the MatterHackers digital design store.

IMPORTANT: This is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the actual License To Make.

The License To Make grants you the right to create physical copies of any digital design purchased in the MatterHackers digital store. One physical copy of the digital design may be used commercially. The digital design itself cannot be redistributed or resold in either original or modified form.

What this means

For each digital design, the License To Make allows you to:

  • Create an unlimited number of physical copies of a design for personal use.
  • Create a single physical copy of a design for commercial use.

The License To Make does not allow a digital design to be:

  • Shared, transferred, resold, sublicensed or redistributed.
  • 3D printed more than once for use commercially.

Some Examples

You can:

  • 3D print a purchased design as many times as you would like.
  • Sell a single physical copy of a purchased design, either by itself or as part of a project.
  • Use a single physical copy of a purchased design to promote your business.
  • Buy multiple licenses to a design and sell one physical copy per purchased license.

You cannot:

  • Sell more than one physical copy, per license, of a purchased design.
  • Give away more than one physical copy of a purchase design as part of a promotion.
  • Sell, share or redistribute a purchased design (even for free).
  • Use a purchased design as part of another design and distribute that design (even for free).
  • Modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble a purchased design and distribute the modified design (even for free).

Portions of some designs may be covered by a public license such as the Creative Commons. In these cases, any portions of the product not covered by a Creative Commons license will be covered by this license.

If you have questions about the License To Make or are unclear about how it might apply to a specific situation, please contact MatterHackers or the seller for clarification.

Licensing options above and beyond the usage described in the License To Make may be available for some designs, please contact the seller for more information.

This summary highlights only some of the key features and terms of the actual license. It is not a license and has no legal value. You should carefully review all of the terms and conditions of the actual license before using the licensed material.

MatterHackers, Inc. is not a law firm and does not provide legal services. Distributing, displaying, or linking to this deed or the license that it summarizes does not create a lawyer-client or any other relationship.

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