<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I will weigh in by merely saying that I envision the *possibility* of a financial exchange server, much like a check processing center as one of the possible futures for an economy on OpenSim grids.<br><br>The notion of a "check processing center" carries with it a number of implications, such as accounts in real dollars, digitally signing checks, security at the processing computer, online statements for the various account holders and probably the fact that a "check" must be written from one account holder to another without inventing the "OpenFederalReserve". <br><br>I am going to call this notion OpenBank for now and continue thinking my way through some of its implications.<br><br>Charles<br><br><div style="font-family: times new
roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Tleiades <tleiades@hotmail.com><br>To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de<br>Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2007 12:14:35 AM<br>Subject: [Opensim-dev] Copyright, IPR and stuff on assets<br><br><div>Hi<br><br>I know that maybe I am getting ahead of my self, but I think we need to <br>start debating on how to handle money, copyrights, IPR and stuff like that. <br>In a few months we will be ready for people to start providing content to <br>grids.<br><br>Then the question on who has rights to the stuff starts to emerge, for <br>osgrid, matters are pretty simple, but what about all the other grids? will <br>they have the same policy as osgrid, or will they lean more towards LL?, if <br>they lean towards LL, how will ownership be transferred, how can money <br>exchange hands?<br><br>We could leave this issue hidden in the closet, so another question is: <br>"Should we try to address
this issue?"<br><br>Personally I think that we would be better of content wise, if content <br>creators could have monetary gain from creating content, just like LL. On <br>the otherhand, I strongly believe that the business model where a content <br>creator makes an original, and then makes a living, from selling a copy of <br>the original, is dead in this digital age. (Yes, this is the same problem, <br>the record industry, the software industry, and a lot of others are facing)<br><br>Some people are going to object to an open source grid, based on fear of <br>having their creation. To my knowledge the only type of content which will <br>have an increased risk of being exposed are scripts, other than that, I <br>think everything else can be ripped today; my guess is that people will be <br>more worried, and that we need to have our arguments in place.<br><br>Let me try to outline some of the arguments I can see:<br>1) Yes, there is an increased risk
of content being ripped, but that <br>increase is "only" related to scripts<br>2) A service/subcription model, where you customers buys a service, rather <br>than content will have no problems with content being ripped<br><br>Then the next question comes up, what kind of money to support? and how to <br>make that money trustworthy? LL currently has an - apparently - well running <br>system for handling micropayments called L$. I doubt we can tap into that, <br>but paypal has a similar system, albeit with some limitations:<br><br><a target="_blank"
href="https://www.paypal.com/helpcenter/main.jsp;jsessionid=HLGVD6HyJnyTkQ1KzC2Tt3hph0pwtpG4PJyDyR27fHxW8s4PJfmT%21-1650576528?t=solutionTab&ft=homeTab&ps=&solutionId=13088&locale=en_US&_dyncharset=UTF-8&cmd=_help-ext&serverInstance=9005">https://www.paypal.com/helpcenter/main.jsp;jsessionid=HLGVD6HyJnyTkQ1KzC2Tt3hph0pwtpG4PJyDyR27fHxW8s4PJfmT!-1650576528?t=solutionTab&ft=homeTab&ps=&solutionId=13088&locale=en_US&_dyncharset=UTF-8&cmd=_help-ext&serverInstance=9005</a><br><br>So what do you think, should we let this bear sleep?<br><br>/Tleiades <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Opensim-dev mailing list<br>Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de<br><a target="_blank" href="https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev">https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev</a><br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>