Ak-Adventurer | Printables.com

Edit; answered my own question after all, See comments below, thanks! :-)

This is probably a stupid question, and I hope not a wrong place to post it(as far as I can tell there is no actual "forum" for this site/community? )

But Anyway; Does "No Remix allowed" in a license mean I am forbidden from modifying something even privately, for my own use? OR simply that I can't publish the changes in any way?

I've been operating on the later. IE, like any other product, once I have it, its mine and I change it as needed to suit my use, but no one ever sees it.

And as somewhat of a side note, what qualifies as a remix?
(which, this might in turn also answer my first question... )

But, some designs are posted as no remix allowed, but then say to add your own text or added design for better personalized use... To me editing to add text would be a remix... Just not particularly posted/made public.

I tend to modify almost everything I download to print, to fit my needs, or else its useless to me. Usually it never matters because almost everything is under a remix allowed license, but sometimes the item is indeed under a no remix license, and I just wonder what the scope of that actually IS.

As a side note, It'd be really really nice if when people change the license on a model they note it in the description. I have a few remixes that I did in detail specifically to share, but in the month between my download and having time to upload, the license changed... And I had no idea until I tried to upload it and couldn't. No garantee I look at the description after I download it, but it could save me some time and effort if I were to see it!

Again, I wonder at that point if I am in violation of the license simply by having my remix for my own use.

Thank you for your time, and any insights you may have!

-AK

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@MrHipppo @Grandpa3DPrints Really appreciate the responses!

I did what I usually do, ask a question THEN do deeper research while waiting, and actually find an answer... Whoops! Could have saved us all the time to read my rambling and post here lol. ;)

as per ;
https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/chapter/4-4-remixing-cc-licensed-work/

"Fundamental principle: As of Version 4.0, all CC licenses, even the NoDerivatives licenses, allow anyone to make an adaptation of a CC licensed work. The difference between the ND licenses and the other licenses is that if an adaptation of an ND-licensed work has been created, it cannot be shared with others. This allows, for example, an individual user to create adaptations of an ND licensed work. But ND does not allow the individual to share adaptations with the public."

And;

""General rules:
If the underlying work is licensed under a NoDerivatives license, you can make and use changes privately but you cannot share your adaptation with others, as discussed above.

If the underlying work is licensed under a ShareAlike license, then ShareAlike applies to your adaptation and you must license it under the same or a compatible license.

You need to consider license compatibility. License compatibility is the term used to address the issue of which types of licensed works can be adapted into a new work.

In all cases, you have to attribute the original work when you create an adaptation.""

The whole page is really interesting and worth a read. There is a big scope as the whether something becomes an "adaptation" of the original work or not to begin with. But the key here for me is that I am indeed allowed to modify, at the very least for my own personal use.

For anything under a Creative Commons license anyway...

Something there I'll have to read several times is how you go about remixing things that are under different licenses, together at once... Yeee Ikes.. lol.