<p>I bought a buddha statue and I would like to scan it using photogrammetry and publish the result. </p>

<p><strong>Am I allowed to do that?</strong></p>

<p>Is this the same like scanning a book and publishing it? Sketchfab on the other hand is full of 3d models of commercial products.</p>

[{'answer_id': 6646, 'author': 'Horitsu', 'author_id': 9575, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/9575', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>If the design was made from an artist and is not public domain, than you should not upload that scan without the (written) permission of the creator of the design. Espacially a scan of a decorative object will likely be protected, so costumers buy the original instead of printing itself or buy a printed version. If you would design a deco object and sell copies of it, you also don't want that others just scan it and print it.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 6652, 'author': 'Carl Witthoft', 'author_id': 2191, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/2191', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>First thing to do is get a lawyer skilled in copyright law as applicable where you live.  It's going to depend in no small part on whether your scanned model is considered a copy or a transformative work of art. </p>\n\n<p>Personally, I see scanning an object as similar to photographing it  (or sketching it).  Lots of art objects, or for that matter personal items such as a photo of a living person, are protected by copyright; others aren't.  If I made the laws, which I sadly don't :-) , I would consider a scanned, printed object to be in the same boat as a sketch -- has to be demonstrably transformative and all that.  </p>\n"}]
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