Content Policy

1. Strictly prohibited content

Some content is never allowed. Uploading, generating, or publishing any of the following will result in immediate account suspension and, where required, a report to law enforcement:

• Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), including any sexual content involving real or apparent minors, hyper-realistic or stylized, including any depiction of nude minors or minors in a sexual manner.
• Pornographic material. Hard pornography (explicit sexual content) is prohibited on all tiers, even for private models.
• Content that promotes, glorifies, or incites violence, terrorism, or self-harm, including depictions of violence against identifiable individuals or promotion of violent extremism.
• Identifiable real people in sexual, defamatory, or other deeply harmful contexts, including deepfake-style impersonations, without explicit consent of the person depicted.
• 3D-printable weapons designed to circumvent legal restrictions: untraceable ("ghost") firearms, lower receivers, full-auto conversion devices, suppressors without the appropriate licence, or other functional components of weapons subject to firearms law in the user's jurisdiction. Realistic, non-functional decorative replicas may be allowed at our discretion.
• IP infringement via prompt or reference image: entering text prompts designed to reproduce copyrighted characters, trademarks, or distinctive styles of identifiable artists; uploading a reference image that includes a third party's copyrighted content without permission.
• Hate speech or targeted abuse against a group based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disease or disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, or similar protected attribute.
• Sensitive personal data: social security numbers, government IDs, financial account numbers, medical records, or other private information of identifiable individuals.
• Misleading, fraudulent, or deceptive content that could lead to real-world harm, including impersonation of any person or organisation.
• Malware, exploits, or anything designed to harm our service or other users.

2. Restricted content (case-by-case)

Some content is allowed in limited contexts but moderated more carefully. We may unpublish, age-gate, or limit distribution as needed:

• Adult / NSFW. Soft-NSFW art (non-pornographic nudity, mature themes) is allowed in private models but cannot be made public in Community models today. A future opt-in adult section may change this.
• Realistic likenesses of public figures. Allowed for satire, commentary, education, fan art, or other lawful expressive purposes. Not allowed for endorsements, sexual content, or anything that could be mistaken for an official statement.
• Replica props from copyrighted media (lightsabers, movie helmets, etc.) are generally allowed for personal use; check the rightsholder's stance before publishing for sale.
• Real-world brands and trademarks are fine in incidental or editorial context; not fine when the result looks like an official product.

3. AI provenance + disclosure

Models generated by 3DP Ocean's AI pipeline are marked as AI-generated on the platform. When you re-publish a 3DP Ocean model elsewhere we ask you to keep that disclosure visible. Hiding the AI-generated status to imply purely human authorship violates this policy.

4. You own the rights to your inputs

By uploading an image you confirm you have the right to use it for AI generation. That usually means one of:

• You took the photo yourself.
• You created the artwork yourself.
• The image is licensed for derivative + commercial AI use (e.g. CC0, your own commissioned commercial license).
• The image is in the public domain in your jurisdiction.

Uploading someone else's photo without that right (a celebrity portrait scraped from a fan site, a stock photo you don't have a license for, an artist's portfolio piece) is not allowed.

4.1. Downstream use is your responsibility

Even when a generated output passes our automated checks at upload time, your downstream use remains your responsibility. If you use a generated model in a commercial product, a printed object you sell, a film, a game, or any other distributed work, you are responsible for ensuring that use is lawful in the jurisdiction where it's distributed, including IP clearance, likeness rights of any real person depicted, and any local content restrictions.

5. How we enforce this

• The AI services we use apply their own safety filters, and refuse to generate from material that breaches them. Beyond that we do not scan uploads automatically; there is no hash matching or classifier of our own, so enforcement here rests on the review and reporting below.
• Human review on reports and on a sample of new community listings.
• Outcomes range from a warning, to unpublishing the model, to permanent account termination, depending on severity and history.
• Monitoring reserved, not promised. We may, but are not obligated to, monitor uploads, generations, or community activity at any time. Absence of action on a specific item does not imply approval. We may remove any input, output, or listing at our discretion when we believe in good faith it violates this Policy or applicable law.

6. Reporting a violation

Send it through the contact form with the address of the model page and which rule you think it breaks. A person reads every report. We aim to answer within 10 business days, and we look first at anything involving a minor, a real person's likeness, or a safety risk.

7. DMCA / IP takedown

If you believe content on 3DP Ocean infringes your copyright or other IP rights, send a notice including all of the following to /contact:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed.
3. The URL of the infringing material on 3DP Ocean, the address in your browser bar while you are looking at it (e.g. 3dpocean.com/models/model-name).
4. Your name, address, telephone number, and email.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

If your model was removed and you believe that was wrong, send a counter-notice from the address on your account through the same contact form. Identify what was removed and where it was, state under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was taken down by mistake or misidentification, and give your name, address and telephone number. We pass it to the person who complained; if they do not tell us within 10 business days that they have started a court action, we may put the model back.

Repeat infringers lose their account. If valid notices are upheld against the same account more than once, expect it to be closed.

A takedown notice sent in bad faith carries real consequences under the law in most countries. Do not use one to remove something you simply dislike or compete with.

7.1 Coordinated security disclosure

Found a security vulnerability? Email us with details and we'll respond within 72 hours. Please don't publicly disclose the issue until we've had a reasonable chance to fix it.

8. Changes to this policy

We may update this Content Policy as the platform and law evolve. The "last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the current version.

9. Contact

Questions or reports: /contact.