October 12, 2007 by Bob Perry
I have been seeing a bunch of people complaining about their products being resold. This bothers me greatly when 99% of the time the person sold or gave it away full perms by accident or on purpose. People sell it full perms then, in the future, complain that someone is breaking a copyright. People need to relax and take responsibility for what they have done.
Another large complaint is that someone's "idea" was stolen. When someone told me they paid over 500,000L for a credit card system in SL, I told them I may build my own since I could have it made for about 20,000L. I was told if I went along with the project I would have a DCMA filed against me. My point is that people need to relax and accept competition. This is in fact a GAME. People shouldn't be suing each other because of it.
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It's all taken way too serious
I actually agree with Bob on this one. It's ridiculous how people get their panties in a wad over stupid crap, although your fact is wrong about SL being a game Bob.
http://www.secondlife.com/whatis
Of course copyrights go for SL too,
in fact anywhere.
Anyone violates my rights by using my work I produced as an art director for my company or my customers without my written consent, will be billed and/or taken to court.
That is nothing new. All that is new is that the internet and SL just being a part of that makes it easier to find persons willing to steal from others.
LL TOS stating that all produced in world is property of LL would not hold up in court. My designs are produced RL and imported to be used in my work.
(will be, we are just starting and learning)
As all my (our) work is intended to boost a RL company and our customers in the long run, claims for damages would be extremely high.
LL claimed to want to set a standard for a future internet format with SL - then they better enforce (or not hinder) RL laws.
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I really don't understand
I really don't understand You Bob, Your rarley rarley post here and when You do it's something crazy and off the wall.
Really??
Um, hi, are you new here?
Just checking. There was an incident with a LL update a while back that reset a bunch of people's vendors from a certain scriptor to allow items to be passed full perm. Impossible, you might say, but it probably isn't. It happened.
Ahem...
"This is in fact a GAME. People shouldn't be suing each other because of it."
Forgive me, but those sound like the words of someone who hasn't contributed a single original item to this 'game'...
...and what's at the bottom of the page I read these words on? "All content copyright the respective authors."
Copyright isn't (in most countries) a gift of the state (even a Linden one), it's a right - the clue's in the word!
Y2P Copyright Clarification
FYI - Copyright and a copyright license are two separate things. Copyright is implicit, and by adding "All content copyright the respective authors." at the bottom of the page, it clarifies that the website Your2ndPlace.com, or the owner (me), does not own what authors other than myself write here.
How authors wish to license their work is their business. Period. The copyright is implicit anyway.
Personally, I don't agree with Bob... my views are pretty well known (else people haven't been reading what I have been writing).
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Vint here ;)
I must agree with Anonymous that a CC (non commercial, if felt needed) is not a bad license for a blog. =)
As for the 'stealing' business, I don't know if you follow fashion, but for instance, the many items of Nicky Ree that were recently 'stolen', slightly adjusted and then resold by A-Diva, according to me, such things should be heavily punished, with all means possible by SLaw and even RLaw. There are A LOT of stolen content cases that are not about making perm mistakes, but where the person 'committing' the crime well enough knows he or she is doing something wrong.
Agreed. If you're so
Agreed. If you're so confident ideas have no value on the Second Life Grid, go ahead and do it anyway.