Copyright & Intellectual Property Policy

Last updated: August 7, 2026

1. Acceptable use & your responsibility

3D Print Dash is a marketplace that lets customers order 3D-printed parts from independent operators. When you upload a model or place an order, you represent and warrant that you own the design or have all rights, licenses, and permissions needed to have it printed.

You are solely responsible for the files you submit. If you don't have the right to reproduce something, don't upload it: printing it may infringe someone else's copyright, trademark, or patent, and you would be responsible for that.

2. Prohibited content

You may not upload, order, or print anything that:

• Infringes copyright, including fan art, game/movie/TV characters, sculptures, or any design owned by someone else, unless you have written permission or a license.
• Infringes a trademark: company logos, brand names, team marks, or anything likely to confuse people about its source.
• Is counterfeit: replicas of branded products, packaging, or parts meant to pass as genuine.
• Infringes a patent or other proprietary rights.
• Is a weapon or weapon component: firearms, firearm parts or accessories, or other regulated weapons.
• Is illegal, dangerous, or restricted: anything unlawful to make, own, or ship, or that violates applicable law.
• Violates someone's privacy or publicity rights: e.g., a person's likeness used without consent.

When in doubt, assume a design is protected. Public, freely-licensed, or your-own models are always welcome.

3. What we screen, and what we don't

3D Print Dash is a manufacturing service, not a public content-hosting platform: uploaded models are private files used only to produce your order, not posted publicly. There are two different paths into the service, and they are screened differently. We want to be precise about that rather than imply a single uniform review:

• Models you generate with Create a Part pass through an automated policy check that reads the description you type and any photo you attach. It is a warning, not a refusal: it flags a request that may involve someone else's intellectual property, or that may be unlawful, and tells you so before you continue. It cannot reliably tell a prop from a real functional item from a sentence of text, and we do not pretend otherwise, so the decision to continue is yours and the decision to make it is a person's. Every flag is recorded, and every order placed on the platform goes into an internal review queue, not only the flagged ones. We work that queue ourselves. It is not a clearance, and it does not happen before your part is made: orders are produced normally and reviewed alongside. Where we find a problem we disable the material and cancel and refund the order. The operator who prints your part may also report a model that looks wrong to them, though they are not asked to judge whether anything infringes. It is automated, it is not perfect, and it is not a legal clearance of the rights in what it produces.
• Files you upload yourself are not put through that screen, and are not proactively reviewed by a person before printing. Responsibility for the rights in an uploaded file stays with the customer who uploaded it (see Section 1).

For both paths we reserve the right, at our sole discretion, and without any obligation to monitor, to refuse, cancel, remove, or stop production of any order, and to suspend or terminate accounts, when we become aware that a design appears to infringe someone's rights or otherwise violates this policy or the law. Operators may likewise decline any job they believe infringes someone's rights, and we act on rights-holder complaints as described below.

4. Reporting a copyright infringement

If you are a copyright owner (or authorized to act for one) and believe material on 3D Print Dash infringes your work, email a written complaint to louwrensventures@gmail.com with "Copyright Complaint" in the subject line, including:

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the copyrighted work you claim was infringed.
• Identification of the material you believe is infringing, and enough information for us to locate it. Because uploaded files are private rather than posted publicly, this normally means an order or upload reference, a listing you saw, or a copy of the item you received, not a public URL.
• Your contact information (name, address, phone, email).
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

On receiving a complete complaint we investigate, and where appropriate we remove or disable access to the material, cancel any related order, and act against the account under Section 7.

Designated agent. Benyamin Neil Louwrens, sole proprietor doing business as 3DPrintDash, 11332 Menlo Way, Redding, California 96003 · (909) 436-6696 · louwrensventures@gmail.com. Send notices to that address, by phone, or by email; the form below is the fastest route and records your reference immediately.

The notice-and-counter-notice procedure below is the statutory one under 17 U.S.C. § 512.

Send a takedown notice

Everything the law requires is on this form. We record every notice, complete or not, and if something is missing we tell you exactly what it is rather than refusing without explanation.

5. Trademark, patent, and other IP complaints

Copyright is only one kind of right, and the process above is built for copyright. If your complaint is about a trademark (a brand name, logo, or a counterfeit passing as genuine), a patent, or a right of publicity, email the same address with the nature of the right in the subject line. Tell us which right you hold, the registration or application number if there is one, what material you believe infringes it, and how to reach you. We evaluate those complaints on their own terms: they do not run through the copyright process above, and there is no statutory counter-notice step for them.

6. If we removed your material by mistake

If material of yours was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g). We forward it to the person who complained. If they do not tell us within 10 to 14 business days that they have gone to court about it, we put your material back.

Read this before you start. We are required to send your name, postal address and phone number to the person who complained. That is not a choice we make; it is how the counter-notice procedure works, and there is no version of it where they do not receive your details. A counter-notice is also a sworn statement, so do not send one unless you genuinely believe the removal was a mistake.

7. Repeat-infringer policy

Accounts that repeatedly infringe others' intellectual property will be terminated. We keep a register of every complaint, what we decided, and what we did, so the policy is applied rather than merely written down.

How a strike is counted. A strike is recorded only where a complete notice actually resulted in material being disabled, and where the notice was not withdrawn and no counter-notice resolved it in your favour. Accusations on their own do not count against you, and neither do complaints we rejected as incomplete. Strikes stop counting after a year, so one bad year does not follow somebody indefinitely.

What happens at three. Three counted strikes inside a year puts the account in front of a person to decide whether to terminate it, with the reason written down and told to you. It is not automatic: a mechanism that ends somebody's account on arithmetic alone would terminate people who did nothing wrong, and a policy that never terminates anyone is not a policy. We may also remove content and suspend accounts at any time where the law requires it.

8. Our role

3D Print Dash is an intermediary platform connecting customers with independent operators. We do not create the models customers upload and do not pre-clear their rights. Customers are responsible for the files they submit, and operators are responsible for declining jobs they believe infringe. Uploaded files are treated as confidential and are used only to produce and ship your order.

9. Contact & changes

Questions about this policy or a specific model? Contact louwrensventures@gmail.com. We may update this policy from time to time; the "last updated" date above reflects the current version. This policy works alongside our Terms (see Section 20, which describes the same copyright-complaint process) and our Privacy Policy.