Posts in the "IP Rights" Category

• Stroker and Nomine versus Linden Lab

  Business
  

  If you didn’t see this coming, then you really should have.  It was only a matter of time before someone disgruntled enough took the legal route to take a lashing at Linden Lab. This case has arisen and has been pounced on by numerous SL blogs. Who is it? Well it involves two named plaintiffs. [...]

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• Commons Sensible

  Creative
  

  Not to be confused with Common Sensible, which is an excellent read by Ari Blackthorne. Contrary to what anyone else may say,  taking other people’s artworks and making out they’re their own is in no way a new trend, as me and Ryker Beck found a year ago today on this very blog. In fact, [...]

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• Transcending Friendship

  Business
  A couple of months ago, I was contacted by somebody I knew nothing about, and somebody I still know very little about. But this person offered me a position writing on his blog – writing on a blog which, as it turned out, was about to be voted the most popular in Second Life. Just as [...]

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• Taser Stuns Linden Lab

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  A story like this really just writes its own title. Taser International Inc. have filed a suit against Linden Lab, XStreetSL and the former owners of XSL, VirtuaTrade. Taser are the biggest producers of stun guns, of course, and it seems they’re unhappy about those residents who are infringing their trademark in SL. It’s interesting [...]

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• Handling Content Theft

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  Maybe I missed something along the line, but there’s not really much advice in the SL Blogosphere for what you should do when someone infringes your IP rights. Everyone rants and raves about how bad it is, and that’s great and all, but what do you do when someone steals your work? As someone who’s [...]

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• A Question of EULA

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  Does a creator in SL have the right to tell us how to use a product after we’ve bought it? I’ve seen End User License Agreements (EULAs) which have stated that sims aren’t to be used in photography which is sold. I’ve seen EULAs which have specified that a prefab can’t be modified in anyway. [...]

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• Punishing Customers

  Business
  

  Ooooh – the people are revolting! I noticed this last month when a friend rezzed some hair, but never thought much of it at the time – Deviant Kitties hairstyles are now protected by a copybot script. Any user who attempts to rez the hair on the ground will have their name logged onto a [...]

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• SL. FL. RL. Stealz.

  Business
  

  Content Theft. Again. Jeez.. even I’m sick of this now. Someone hand me God Tools already, and let us begin the era of “cleansing” so we can put this damn thing to bed. Content theft hasn’t shut up since.. well, ever. I’d actually love to know if I could claim a copyright on selling prim [...]

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• Come Together

  Business
  Colleen Desmoullins apparently reads this blog, which means I can’t publish my entry on why my furniture is so much better than hers (Kidding! Please don’t hurt me!). She suggested a topic to me to blog about, and having gone through similar experiences myself, I felt obliged to. Designers in Second Life are usually associated [...]

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• Virtual World Business Licenses

  Articles
  Grace McDunnough has written an interesting article on her blog about the need for Virtual World Business Licenses in Second Life. She makes a good case point that in the real world, we expect our retailers to provide quality goods, and after sales support. Retailers are governed in the real world to ensure a level [...]

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