TOS. UCCSL. Where do we stand?
Summary for January
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Summary of events and positions on the current LL terms of service.
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Summary for January
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Summary of events and positions on the current LL terms of service.
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- Updated LL TOS Claims FULL RIGHTS to ALL CONTENT
- 62 pages there. New posts almost daily.
- UCCSL redirection: UCCSL. New Year, New Vision by Kylie Sabra
- Interest tally on the Linden Lab TOS issue of intellectual property rights
- Back in October (over 9,000 views):
- Linden Lab is reworking the terms of service (TOS). Exchange of letters
- Overview (over 10,000 views) :
- New Terms of Service for SL--grants LL the right to sell your work?
- Where to now?
- Some give LL more time.
- Some have stopped producing new content.
- Some are expanding or moving to Opensim and Opensim markets
- Some are unhappy with the new direction of UCCSL, may want new leadership
- Below: summary, suggested action items, and my view
- Updated LL TOS Claims FULL RIGHTS to ALL CONTENT
- Action item: Read and post if you are interested.
- My view: Useful for showing your interest and position.
UCCSL redirection
- UCCSL. New Year, New Vision by Kylie Sabra
- UCCSL seeks conversation with LL on IP rights.
- Some think conversation has been and will be ineffective.
- Action item: Organize a new group to represent your position.
- My view: Conversation has been ineffective since October.
- I doubt that conversation will be more effective in the future
- Effort more intense than conversation would express principles.
- But has little chance of being more effective than conversations.
- If you want a remedy, look to what you can do.
- Test intent: Ask LL for a document waiving its claim to a license to sell your products.
- Or look for alternatives that do not depend on the kindness of LL.
Give SL more time
- They are not exploiting your content now.
- Maybe they won't. Don't worry till they do.
- Action item: No action required.
- My view: Reasonable for people comfortable with that.
Keep selling. Stop uploading new content
- Some creators have done that with little loss in sales.
- Action item: Look for elsewhere to offer new content
- My Take: If most creators do this, old content may keep selling well.
- You can look elsewhere (below) to sell new content.
- Opensim
- Opensim Grids
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- Myopensim (web-based market)
- Kitely Market (sells in Kitely, plans to sell in hypergrid).
- Opensim Shops.
- New export/import capability in Firestorm moves objects to other grids.
- Action item: Look at, test alternative markets.
- My Take: Prudent and a good business plan.
- Expansion costs little. Listing on Kitely market is free. Can only increase sales.
- But check on ripoff risks for high value goods
- Backup in case SL is moving away from independent content creation.
Moving to Opensim and Opensim markets
- Similar to expanding but adds stop uploading new stuff or cut selling.
- Action item: Put all efforts into selling in these markets.
- Action item: Close art galleries and stores, cut listing in SL Marketplace.
- My View: Similar to expanding (above). Loses some sales.
- Writers may want to sell exclusive rights to their products.
- They may have abandoned exclusive rights in accepting the TOS.
- Action Item: Hire a lawyer, get legal opinion. Or:
- Action Item: Ask LL for a document waiving or disavowing its claim. Or:
- Action Item: Avoid putting finished work into notecards.
- My view: If you want to sell exclusive rights to your writing, don't put it on notecards in SL
- Video producers may want to sell exclusive rights to their products.
- They may have abandoned exclusive rights in accepting the TOS.
- Action Item: Hire a lawyer, get legal opinion. Or:
- Action Item: Ask LL for a document waiving or disavowing its claim. Or:
- Action Item: Move to another grid to make marketable videos.
- My view: I have moved my affected video projects to Kitely
Related
- New Terms of Service for SL--grants LL the right to sell your work?
- Updated LL TOS Claims FULL RIGHTS to ALL CONTENT (62 pages)
- If you want to sell exclusive rights to your writing, don't put it on notecards in SL
- If you want to sell exclusive rights to videos done in SL, check the TOS
- United Content Creators of SL (UCCSL). New Year, New Vision by Kylie Sabra
- Interest tally on the Linden Lab TOS issue of intellectual property rights
- Legal Panel on new SL TOS (video)
- Transcript of the discussion from the legal panel
- Linden Lab Terms of service
- Second Life Terms of Service: A legal panel
- Special edition of Designing Worlds
- Designing worlds New TOS Part 2
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