A printed miniature has two makers. Someone sculpted it, and someone printed it. Only the second one is us, and the arrangement that lets us sell the first one's work is worth explaining, because "3D printed miniature" on the internet covers both the legitimate version and the other kind.
What the licence actually is
We are an authorised Clay Cyanide Commercial Crafters partner. In plain terms: the studio that sculpts the figures grants us the right to print them and sell the printed result, and takes a share of it. The sculptor gets paid every time one of their pieces leaves our bench.
Why that is not a formality
Digital sculpting is slow, skilled work, and a file is trivial to copy. A market where nobody pays for the sculpt is a market where nobody sculpts for long. Buying a licensed print is the difference between supporting a studio and quietly competing with it.
The licence covers the printed object. It does not come with the file — that is the sculptor's to sell, and where a range is offered as an STL we say so on the listing.
What you get for it
The sculpt as its designer intended, printed in resin fine enough to hold the detail they put there, cleaned and inspected before it is boxed. Plus the ordinary consumer protections a real business has to provide: EU product safety documentation, a company behind the invoice, and someone to write to if something arrives wrong.
The licensed ranges are marked in the catalogue. Have a look, or read more about the two of us and the bench they come off.