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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/16/2012 12:56 AM, Snowcrash Short
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<div>Users have right too, you know? <span class="HOEnZb"><font
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Absolutely. Believe me, I'm a huge supporter of user's rights. These
include things like (as they're known in the U.S.) fair use and
first sale doctrines. But I ask you not to forget forget that the
ability to exercise copyright or enter into a contract is *also* a
user's right. This isn't a "Them against Us" issue. It's an _ALL of
us_ issue. Fighting for one set of rights while disregarding or
undermining other rights is not a tenable position.<br>
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I've would adore it if someone were to step up and pull people
together into finally wrangling a framework that allows for people
like Fleep to share her creations freely across virtual worlds in a
user friendly format, while also allowing commercial creators to
have a reasonable expectation of the preservation of their licenses
and copyrights. That should be the real project here. There's too
many missing pieces at the moment. Getting an export flag
implemented on the server and in viewers, although an imperfect
solution, would be an excellent way to get the ball rolling.<br>
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Any other action, I think, will tend to be perceived as a, "I want
what I want, and I want it now, damn the consequences," response to
the community, whether or not that perception is warranted.<br>
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Marcus<br>
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