>Why should Linden Lab hobble the interface or the objects with sectarian, cult-like “licenses” with ideologically-driven notions like “not for commercial use” that not everyone wants to opt in to? This isn’t the “norm” — it’s just a hippie cult that *some people who generally are in the minority* which to construct as their “copyright” regime.

Maybe it is not an ideology but maybe the law says so? I think that they have the legal right to write, enforce and spread their own EULA terms, which they call copyleft, on their own products.

There is a plethora of copyright versions nowadays. Some make sense, some don’t and some are simply illegal or otherwise useless.

I don’t care a shit of the copyright development of consumer items, but I’m interested in following the liberalization of production tools. It might lead the RL economy from the capitalism to the market economy because of diminishing capital requirements of a business. The last time people owned their production tools was when people lived on agriculture. (Later they became serfs when they outsourced the defense.)

What comes to art and money. Well, if somebody can’t feed himself as an artist, I suggest the change of profession. The scope of art has always been somewhat limited and will be. It is a tough person who still can wander around in SL after three months all this so called creativity around.

But what am I to give advice to an American Anarchist who is telling other people how to organize copyright issues. Modern anarchists are always busy telling other people how they should live “truly free”.

coco

A ‘freebie’ is just that, regardless of permissions that are set. It is free, no ifs, ands or buts about it. Want to sell something? Make it yourself and then sell it – or obtain explicit permission to sell an item that you did not create and hold no rights as to how it is distributed.

Of course, that would require you to do some actual work – something you are apparently unable, unwilling, or simply too lazy to do.

I don’t *care* about your opinion, you egotistical waste of space. Your constant belittling of content creators and their concerns bores me, and demonstrates both how out of touch you are with the reality of Second Life and how petty and stupid you are.

This rambling, idiotic so-called report is simply a waste of words, as is most of the crap you churn out under the guise of “journalism” – like you’d know what journalism is.

But then again, I suppose it fits in with the new “griefer-friendly” Herald, with its constant courting of the *-Chan crowd. Having the forum griefer-in-chief Prokofy “Banned” Neva writing fits in perfectly.

I already pay attention to what’s going on, dumbass — hence this article.

I’m not drinking the CC Kool-aid. I don’t *agree* that it would be a good idea to start ideologically characterizing all sorts of objects in SL as “commercial” or “non-commercial” when there’s already a way to do that, duh: put $0 or put $100 in the price tag space? That would do it.

Why should Linden Lab hobble the interface or the objects with sectarian, cult-like “licenses” with ideologically-driven notions like “not for commercial use” that not everyone wants to opt in to? This isn’t the “norm” — it’s just a hippie cult that *some people who generally are in the minority* which to construct as their “copyright” regime.

The general public didn’t even get to discuss it, understand its ramifications, or decide on it, through publishing opinion or voting.

Why should a bunch of copyleftists and hippies and extremists who have this point of view be allowed to *force a system* on everyone else? If they think copyright in the old style is “forcing a system,” it’s at least a system backed by democratic societies’ *law* that is democratically debated. Their system is merely a cult, and one they try to put over on people with comments and argumentations like we’re seeing from Ian Betteridge here.

I fail to see why those who are so fired up about having these kinds of “licenses” can’t just make them themselves. Slap whatever interaction or text or whatever on your object you wish, without invading the entire client with it.

So…um, I do understand these issues, as much as any intelligent, educated person can understand them, having read about them. If these are some sort of arcane secret in a secret cult, well, gosh, I guess I missed the memo.

There *are already* flags on SL objects. They’re called “copy/mod/transfer”. The Lindens were already well-attuned to all this copyleft stuff at the get-go. The other little button is called “no copy/no mod/no transfer”. More people concerned about the sale of freebies should turn that OFF and stop expecting the rest of the tier-payers in SL to uphold the representations of their “freebies” and contribute to their viral marketing and reputation enhancement campaigns.

The check-offs already enable “sale/transfer” with “no copy” and “no mod” — all you need, pretty much, to have a world where people can decide to create artistic works and sell them and retain the rights to them so that pretty much (of course barring exploits) people can’t copy them easilier.

If you are a CC cultist, you can always stick a CC card or stamp or interaction with a hover text on the object and not require everybody to endure the granulation of CC stuff enforced on them as “tools” when all it is is *ideology*.

Which she blatantly doesn’t.

Stop infosecuting me