Has anyone seen any provided ways to opt out of this agreement?
Terms and Conditions Update
Discussion started by nabinthapaliya446
Dear Seller,
We're updating Section 18.11 of our General Terms and Conditions to create more sales opportunities for your 3D models, especially with large enterprise buyers.
What's Changing?
To better connect your creations with enterprise clients, Section 18.11 now allows CGTrader itself to purchase licenses for your models in order to re-sell and sublicense them to enterprise buyers.
This change enables us to meet the specific needs of large companies for bulk purchases by addressing their procurement requirements. It’s designed to boost your visibility, open up new opportunities and new sales channels.
How Does This Help You?
This update offers significant benefits by expanding your market reach:
More sales opportunities: Your models can now be considered by large businesses with specific purchasing requirements.
Wider audience: Access bigger projects and corporate deals that might have been out of reach before.
Easier bulk sales: We'll handle the complex process for large enterprise purchases, simplifying it for you.
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They are yours but they can resell and use them how they please
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The points in the update worry me. And these points are especially alarming:
- "...Seller shall not be compensated for such submission of the Products for verification or testing."
- "... In case the Seller removed the Product from the Site or changed the price or licence of the Product after it has been provided to the Buyer for verification or testing purposes, should the Product be selected by such Buyer for purchase, the Product can be sold to a Buyer after its removal from the Site and it can be sold at the price and with the licence which prevailed at the moment it was provided to the Buyer."
And this point gives me an ambiguous attitude and many questions:
- "When enterprise Buyer agrees to purchase the Products, the sale process may manually be completed at the Site as per Terms and Conditions established thereunder..."
How to understand all this? I'm just confused...
It means that even if you remove the item after it is sold to a third party, CGT claim ownership of it, and can continue to sell it without paying you. THIS IS NOT LEGAL, IT IS THEFT.
Without any opt-out, the only way to protect YOUR WORK from the theft of them by CGT is to remove them all now.
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I've got the notifications of several of my models been bought starting from last month by "cgt-clients", I do not know if this is some legit user or
if cgtrader already started purchasing my models to resell them in future?
I do not agree to these new condition, I do not allow CGtrader to resell and sublicense my work in any shape or form without my consent.
After these and the changes at the payout rate this is a really concerning situation.
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It is sad. Very sad. I just deleted all my models. They gave some good passive income. But THEY ARE MINE! And by deleting them they stay mine.
You know what the sad part is? They probably have at least 2 backups for all site models. Even if you delete them they still have them, but at least they wont make profit anymore. I will stay in this forum just to see how this all unfolds. But yeah, my patience is full.
wait, that's only possible if you already got sales from cgt-client, right?, so if i never opted for that promotion then my models are still safe from this cgt scum?
This is really very sad!
Looks like it.. It kind of feels like CGT was bought by some other company.. There is definitely something shady going on there
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This is so much worse than the last change, where they reduced artists' pay.
Now, if I understand this correctly, they can legally do whatever they want with the models that we, the artists, created. They can sell them to whoever they want, for any price they choose, and with any license they decide.
We pretty much lose all control over our models being used for AI, mass production, or anything else.
If there’s no option to opt out of this agreement, you won’t be seeing me using this platform starting from the 14th of July.
It's even worse, they think that they have right to give away our models for free "for verification" without our consent. I'm pretty sure it's illegal.
They have lost the plot. Imagine the landlord of your shop making deals based on items you are selling in your shop without your consent. Bear in mind that these are items you procured on your own with your money, your labour, your sweat and with absolutely no input from the landlord. Somewhere down the line, CGT forgot that if 3D artists removed their models, CGT would be DEAD and there would be NO revenue. That little piece of fact appears to be somewhat lost in translation. Other 3D marketplaces are guilty of this to some extent, but CGT takes the cake of needlessly antagonizing 3D artists.
BEFORE the proposed changes. Not that they seem to be worried about the law at this point.
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Here we go again. Just when you thought CGT has hit rock bottom, the ground opens up to reveal a bottomless pit. You cannot forcefully take ownership of someone's intellectual property. Opt-out should be the default and those who for some strange reason want to relinquish the rights to their intellectual properties will be given the option to do so.
I sincerely hope that deleting one's models on this repulsive platform means they no longer have access/control. Judging form their recent nefarious actions, I wouldn't doubt they would still have access to your models to use as they please even after you have deleted them from the platform.
The only viable marketplaces for 3d models at the moment appear to be FAB, Unity Asset Store, Turbosquid (unfortunately with the 40% royalty rate),Superhive formerly Blender Market (Promotes 70% but pays 65%-66% royalty after fees), 3DExport (Promotes 70% but pays 65% royalty after 5% merchant fee). FlippedNormals has 75% royalty rate but the traffic over there is abysmal.
"I sincerely hope that deleting one's models on this repulsive platform means they no longer have access/control." After July 14 that's no longer the case - they've changed T&C, so now even if you will delete all the models from the site, cgtrader will happily sell them to whomever they please, possibly even without paying royalties to you. It's like hotel California, you can check out, but you can never leave.
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Hold on a minute. This an OPT OUT that is already there. I knew I hadn't agreed to any of this, and made a point of opting out of everything when they tried to cheat us by automatically opting everyone IN to sales and AI usage a while back.
https://www.cgtrader.com/profile/sales#discounts (scroll down to the bottom of the page).
Does the proposed change to T&C remove this option? We need clarification, now CGT! I know you read the forums, even if you don't reply at all.
I suggest everyone asks for clarification by messaging the author of this thread their question directly. :-https://www.cgtrader.com/designers/nabinthapaliya446
The OP is not an employer of cgtrader, it's just another seller who shared the news. If you want to message cgtrader about this, which we all should definitely do, the proper way is to write to support@cgtrader.com
I have the same settings. As for the author of this thread, he probably just copied and pasted here the message that everyone received by email. I don't think he has any explanation for this situation.
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Deleting your 3D models or raising prices for just one or two accounts won’t make much of a difference. If you really want to have an impact, it needs to be done in numbers. We need to stand together and take action as a group. All artist or creator need to unit specially those who have more than 100 models. Whether that means removing content or adjusting prices.
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Deleting your 3D models or raising prices for just one or two accounts won’t make much of a difference. If you really want to have an impact, it needs to be done in numbers. We need to stand together and take action as a group. All artist or creator need to unit specially those who have more than 100 models. Whether that means removing content or adjusting prices.
Sorry for posting twice
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Possible pre-sale cleanup?
Interesting timing with all these changes – tighter license control, resale rights even after model removal, and free enterprise previews.
It looks like CGTrader might be preparing for a bigger move – acquisition, merger, or pivot?
Hard not to wonder if this is more about making the books look clean than supporting artists.
As far as I can see, they cannot legally do this retroactively - but I guess you (as an artist) will have to agree to this moving forward, or get the hell out of Dodge.
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https://www.cgtrader.com/profile/sales#discounts at the bottom of the page I have long ago set up the settings to refuse to participate in sales programs. Also, for this reason, I have an old email confirmation from CGTrader that my wishes have been taken into account.
I also took screenshots from this page of my settings, which were set earlier, before receiving today's notification from CGTrader about the change in the "General Terms". This is my disagreement to participate in these programs, namely:
- Sell my models for equity, custom enterprise deals, revenue share, and other alternative compensation methods
- Sell my models on other platforms via CGTrader partnerships
These screenshots are proof that I did not agree to before the official notification from CGTrader by email about the change in the "General Terms" and do not agree at the moment either, and at the time of entry into force (July 14, 2025) of the new changes, my refusal to participate in these programs will be in effect.
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These nefarious scum-bags are really hell bent on brazen intellectual property theft. First they asked "nicely" for us to give up our intellectual property rights with a default Ai opt-in and optional opt-out, many told them to kick rocks and opted out of that garbage. Then they hit us with mandatory discount with e-mail opt-out, while ignoring the opt-out option already implemented in the user settings, many again told them to go outside, take off their shoes and kick rocks.
As if those were not enough buffoonery, they decided to slash our royalty rates significantly with a harebrained imbecilic rating system. While we are already on the ground writhing in agonizing pain, these sadistic 4ks who have blatantly refused to take “no” for an answer decided to get in some licks with this new scheme that for now appears to be gearing toward forceful takeover of our intellectual properties against our wish, even after we delete and remove our 3d models from their marketplace. I am not a lawyer but I am pretty sure that is illegal af.
So what’s next, because I do not think we have hit rock bottom. Perhaps we’ll be mandated with no opt-out option to pay CGT a monthly subscription fee to publish our models which they will automatically own.
The only viable option is to delete all models from CGtrader before July 14 and get ready for a massive class action lawsuit, because one can reasonably infer from their previous dubious actions that they are very likely to retain possession of your 3d models and use them as they please, against your wish, even after deleting and removing them from CGTrader before July 14. Whatever they say cannot be trusted. Their assurances must me considered meaningless.
Looks like it is time to get the hell outta Dodge.
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