2012 HELP: IPRIGHTS: The Catch 22 of Linden Lab's new Terms of Service

The Catch 22 of Linden Lab's new Terms of Service
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Intellectual property rights and how the Terms of Service trap them.
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• You are a content creator
• You actually read the terms of service
• You see that accepting the TOS gives LL a license to sell your creations 
• Without paying you, without crediting you, without even telling you
• You don't like that
• You don't accept the TOS
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• You want to delete your creations and close your account
• But you can't delete your things 
• Not without going inworld
• Not without accepting the TOS 
• Not without giving LL a license to sell your creations
• Catch 22

• The TOS takes effect immediately, when you accept it
• That TOS rule comes from a previous change in the TOS
• The TOS used to have a 30 day delay before it took effect
• And the new TOS seems to apply retroactively to existing content 

• But you can sue, of course.
• No, you can't.  You agreed to arbitration in the TOS
• Catch 22

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