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The Archives
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12.15.09Digital Entitlement: Our Right to Copy in Virtual WorldsThe right to copy, back-up and move virtual goods from one platform to another is a philosophy that, well, confounds me, and I can't help wondering whether the expression of virtual goods somehow has us believing that these really ARE a pair of jeans, or a house, or a car or whatever, that somehow we feel entitled because of the sense of reality we get from virtual goods, but then I remember that many people have a similar sense of entitlement to ANY content that can be digitized, it's people who CREATE content who just don't 'get it', their rights ...
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08.05.09Linden Lab Listening: Second Life Content Protection Road Map ReleasedAfter the provocation of Rezzable's announcement that they might release a full sim copying tool for Second Life and the vocal reaction of the community, Linden Lab has released a road map for content protection and permissions and is inviting community feedback. The reply by the Lab is, to my mind, a stunning articulation of their position on content protection and, while it invites community feedback and has some wiggle room around new options for licenses (the devil will be in the details), I can only loudly applaud their response. I can now officially retract my previous post where I stated: "But I’m ...
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07.26.09User-Generated Content as a Business Model: Second Life and the Slow Burn, Rezzable ReduxIt's a user-generated world, we're told, the tools are available to all of us, and even if we don't use them there are enough other people that do to let us gorge on youTube videos instead of television, or listen to songs put together in Garage Band, or maybe even buy a new table using one of those 3D printers or whatever - this user-generated thing isn't just about the stuff that's easy to digitize anymore, like songs or movies, it's getting atomic on us, and we're all designing our own t-shirts and uploading them to a Web site in ...
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10.16.08Intellectual Property and Virtual Worlds: DefinitionsThe Joint Information Systems Committee provides a snapshot of issues related to copyright, intellectual property and trademarks for a Web 2.0 world and gives a quick call-out on virtual worlds, and Second Life in particular: "Second Life typifies rights issues that arise within the use of the internet per se and in particular the cross applicability and relevance of specific jurisdictions. Copyright issues can range from copies of real life works being created within Second Life without authorisation, to the use of software that makes it easy to copy in-game artifacts. Whilst some virtual worlds claim ownership and control of anything ...
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