[Opensim-users] Announcement of inventory tool (MyInventory), mostly of interest to grid operators/grid nauts

[Snowcrash Short]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:

> Hi Doug,
>
> On 19/11/2012 19:57, Doug Danforth wrote:
> > A tool that allows for the convenient management of allowable inventory
> > across grids is sorely needed. That a users things should travel with the
> > user seems to my tiny brain as being a no-brainer :-).
>
> If the items belong to the user. Purchased items do not belong tot
> he user. They belong to the creator and continue to belong to the
> creator, being licensed only for use on the one grid where they were
> purchased (licensed). Allowing these items to travel is called
> "copyright infringement", or, more often, "theft."
>
Whether this is theft or not really depends on how you define the term
"distribution". Unfortunately I have not seen a single consistent
definition of this term used, neither in the practical world nor in the
legislation governing ip rights, especially in the context of the internet.

Whether copying an item I have licensed but not created from the personal
inventory of one of my accounts to another is distribution, or merely
moving from one personal storage location to another is very much at an
open question which I doubt has no clear answer in any country.

>
> - Melanie
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