[Opensim-dev] Legal Issues was RFC Profiles

[Frisby, Adam]

I suggest using a URI here for the licenses, with major license links hosted at sites owned by major organisations unlikely to go down (CC, FSF, etc).

For plain SL-viewers, perhaps we could show the licenses as the 'description' of the inventory item or something? (maybe a '/license <item>' command inworld with the inventory item name returns license information?)

Adam

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> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Michael Cortez
> Sent: Monday, 30 March 2009 5:32 PM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Legal Issues was RFC Profiles
> 
>  >> I'm not sure I would support having Creative Commons be the default
> though...
>  >> while it is an excellent option for some work and I have used it
> for
> some content
>  >> I have developed, it does reduce the creator's rights that are
> normally assumed
>  >> by the Berne convention or US copyright laws.
> 
> This is true.
> 
> With the four component options available for CC, many scenarios are
> covered:
> 
> http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
> 
> But not all.
> 
> All of the CC options assume you allow redistribution, but aside from
> that in most cases "Copy-No Mod" would be equivalent to something like
> "Attribution No Derivatives" and "Copy-Mod" would essentially be
> "Attribution Share-Alike" or "Attribution Non-Commercial."
> 
> What's missing is a "No Distribution" clause.  If the organizers had
> the
> foresight to be complete, rather then altruistic, the addition of a
> non-redistribution clause IMHO would have made for the ultimate
> mix/match license.
> 
> An "All rights reserved, you are licensed to use this for personal use"
> type clause for "No Perms" would be good.
> 
> Lots of ideas, and there will be lots of complexity -- and of course we
> don't want to start handing out legal advice -- but as others have
> mentioned, if we start with some way of adding asset meta data -- we
> can
> then grow from there.
> 
> Now of course, for specific grids like say <cough>OSGrid</cough> --
> where I suspect the admin's aren't really in this to be  IP rights
> cops,  and probably don't want people coming after them with  lawyers
> because some bug  exposed  an exploitable asset copy mechanism, or
> because someone connected a hacked region to the grid to suck assets
> out
> -- perhaps having the default licensing be something like CC -- which
> always guarantees redistribution isn't such a bad thing?
> 
> --
> Michael Cortez
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