[Opensim-users] Speaking of Content Theft, How About Our Own Backyard?

[Karen Palen]

Sorry  the IP "rights" issue is FAR more complicated than that!

Linden Labs problems are a VERY mall sample of the copying/piracy problem in
the entire real life world!

The (US) DMCA for all its faults was an attempt to address some of those
issues and no one has yet come up with anything better.

BTW in Real Life, I am retired form a career in IP Law and still have a
valid USPTO registration to practice.

If you think the debates here and on the Second Life blogs are "heated" and
"acrimonious" then you should try going to a IP lawyer event!

About the only thing that is clear is that there are NO simple solutions -
NONE! (I include FOSS in this, even though I am a FOSS enthusiast)

Let us not try to solve the problems of the whole real life world, it is
enough to get a workable "hack" for virtual worlds!

Karen

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Robert Martin <robertltux at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:32 PM, James Stallings II
> <james.stallings at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's the thing: LL has no particular interest in doing this. This
> really
> > complicates the issue for opensim, which uses LL protocols out of the
> box,
> > and relies on LL viewers for access.
> > This is why so many people insist that the problem begins and ends with
> LL.
>
> so maybe the opensim folks can work on it (maybe as a variant of the
> IAR/OAR import/export) and basically force LLs hand.
>
> --
> Robert L Martin
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