[Opensim-dev] Legal Issues was RFC Profiles

[Stefan Andersson]

Sounds about right. Also, If we got to expose/fetch notecards over the web, both alternatives could merge. ;)


(And yes, we really only need one notecard per license type)


Best regards,
Stefan Andersson
Tribal Media AB



 
> From: adam at deepthink.com.au
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:33:48 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Legal Issues was RFC Profiles
> 
> 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
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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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