[Opensim-dev] WG: Legal Issues was RFC Profiles

[Stefan Andersson]

Just to chip in, if you want to be really sure your license will follow the asset, you could embed the licence text into the asset binary data; of course, it wouldn't work for binary assets like textures and sounds (I think) but for text assets like shirts and shapes.
 
Best regards,
Stefan Andersson
Tribal Media AB



 
> From: mike.dickson at hp.com
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:26:36 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] WG: Legal Issues was RFC Profiles
> 
> If as a creator I want to add a notecard to my object indicating the
> licensing terms I want to apply when someone has a copy of or rez's my
> object I'm free to do so. Heck I could even get fancy and script it
> asking for a click-through menu response or something. I'm not against
> licensing of objects. Just don't pollute what is IMO an already a tad
> over-complex OpenSim core with it.
> 
> Content licensing is a matter for the grid TOS and individual content
> providers on that grid. Not, IMO something that OpenSIM core needs to
> worry about or address.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 21:08 +0000, Ralf Haifisch wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > i while ago i went over the legal side of many aspects with 2 lawyer.
> > 
> > Since this is a multinational question and in many cases has not exampels
> > (e.g. no judgments by court) it tends to be a discussion based on personal
> > flavor, but not legal facts.
> > 
> > And yes, maybe there is enough mud for the whole 3D web.
> > 
> > But to come to the point:
> > 
> > - I don´t know any country, where having the ability to add a
> > hypergrid-aware note about the creator and a license (hint, url, notecard)
> > would have negative impact
> > 
> > - I know a few countrys where it would realy help from legal side
> > 
> > - it would be a clear sign, that the opensim crew takes care about content
> > rights and ownership
> > 
> > 
> > And yes, this only is another brick in the wall of copyright protection. We
> > still have RL laws, we still need secure technical system, rights management
> > etc etc...
> > 
> > And spoken in sex beds, I am more afraid about the pure mass von animations
> > etc - a few more notecards don´t worry me to much. :-)
> > 
> > So - if it is possible somehow, please add it.
> > 
> > 
> > Just my 2 cent...
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Ralf
> > 
> 
> 
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