Third-party rights

1. This annex is part of the creator terms

A creator accepts this annex by accepting the creator terms. It applies to every file, preview, pictogram, and listing text the creator uploads or sells. A buyer account does not accept it. The per-file statement “I have the right to publish and sell this file” repeats the duty in this annex for that submission.

2. The creator’s promise

The creator promises that, for every file and listing, the creator owns the rights or holds a licence that allows 3D Hub Parts to host the file and the buyer to use it under the licence shown on the listing. The promise covers copyright, design rights, trademarks, database rights, and rights in a person’s name or likeness.

Owning a physical part is not, by itself, a right to copy its shape and sell the file. Naming a vehicle on a listing identifies fitment. It is not a licence from the manufacturer. The creator will not upload a file the creator knows, or should know, belongs to someone else.

3. Licence to the platform

The creator keeps ownership of the file. The creator grants 3D Hub Parts a non-exclusive licence to store the file, show the preview, back it up, and deliver it to a buyer who has paid. The licence lasts while the listing is on the marketplace, and afterwards for backups, accounting, and a dispute about that file. The platform does not become the owner of the design.

4. Costs of a third-party claim

If a file or listing infringes a third party’s rights, the creator bears the cost of that infringement. The cost includes damages, a settlement, a refund to a buyer, a payment-provider chargeback fee, and reasonable lawyers’ fees and court costs of the platform and of the claimant. The creator pays these amounts when the platform asks, whether or not the creator is still allowed to sell.

The platform may set those amounts off against honorarium that has been recorded and not yet paid to the creator. A set-off does not limit what the creator still owes if the unpaid balance is smaller than the cost.

5. Hold on the disputed amount

A report filed from the listing marks every file on it, holds the creator’s unsettled amount from that listing, and blocks new payout requests while the claim is to verify or in progress. The 48-hour period does not run for the held amount. Other listings stay unpaid only because the payout request itself is blocked until the claim is closed or the platform refunds buyers and blocks the listing.

Closing a notice means the claimant withdraws it, the creator and the claimant settle it, or the platform decides there is no further reason to keep the hold. Removing a listing is not a decision that the creator lacked rights, and keeping a listing up is not a warranty that the file is free of third-party rights.

6. How to send a notice

Use Report a rights claim on the listing. The report needs a description and your email. A plagiarism report also needs a photo of the original. The platform emails that address a link which can close the claim if you settle with the seller. The same claim appears as a link on the creator’s account. An administrator starts at To verify, and can move the claim to In progress or to Refund buyers and block products.

7. What the buyer receives

The licence on the listing is granted by the creator, not by the platform. The platform does not promise a buyer that the file is free of third-party rights, that it is safe to fit on a vehicle, or that the named manufacturer approved it. Fitment stays creator-declared unless the listing says it was independently verified.

8. Limits of this annex

This annex does not transfer the design to the platform, and it does not replace an order from a court or a competent authority. Filing a claim holds unsettled creator funds in the ledger. A bank transfer that was already marked paid is not pulled back automatically. The contracting entity and the governing law are filled in before production. Until then, this page is a sample.

Creator sign-up shows the terms that include this annex.