it wasn’t me

I am Archie Lukas

with a K

no hate mail okay?
no boiling bunnies?
no cut up suits?
and no brake fluid and pickaxes through my car

It was not me
promise.

Clearly there are many who abuse the system but I think on the whole creators have a valid gripe when it comes to copybotted items/stolen textures, and people like ‘?’ are just trying too hard to be contrary.

“b) There is no “take picture of RL fashion and convert to SL clothes” button on the SL client. It takes *work* to do this translation.”

VS

“b) There is no “take picture of SL fashion and make copy” button on the SL client. It takes *work* to do this translation.”

measuring with two different measuring cups there I think… this reads like “It’s OK to steal designs, rip off real designers, and make money off their backs, as long as it’s not stolen from an SL designer but from a RL one”

Niiiiiiice going. Suits well with the whole NO CONTENT THEFT CUZ ITS BAD BAWWWW campaign that they have going on.

HEy, Stroker, which google found picture was your chesthair on your skin stolen from?

Remember kids, IP rights are worth protecting as long as no-one finds out your ‘intellectual’ designs were stolen from RL designers and models!

And there’s plenty of Schwartzing going on in SL.

Did you read the post with the (a) and (b) points, and think it was written by Tenshi? I ask, because I, /dev/null, wrote it and I’m not her, and I have no idea about “birds on skirts”, have never been to Fashion Week, etc.

Frankly I think copyright infringement is more prevelant than you think it is. Without even thinking hard, I can probably come up with at least a dozen knock-offs from RL Fashion Week and so could you probably.

b) So its ok to rip off copyrights as long as you spend a lot of time and effort doing it?

The next time someone rips off a skin they’ll have to remember to tell everyone how hard it was to rip the skin and how you really have to know what you are doing in order to rip texture out of Second Life. I can just hear the sighs of relief from the originators of the skins as they realize that even though their hard work will be sold for less by someone who ripped them off, its ok because he worked really hard at ripping them off. That should make them feel oogobs better.

a) I have no idea what percentage of creations in SL are original, and what are RL “homages” / “knock-offs” (chose your poison). Does anyone else?

b) There is no “take picture of RL fashion and convert to SL clothes” button on the SL client. It takes *work* to do this translation. In the real-world, programmers who port a game from one system to another get paid for their work, despite the fact that they are not changing the core of the game itself. So, while I do see the argument for stripping at least some SL content creators of their “designer” title, they are still entitled to payement for the “porting” component of their work. Lucas is entitled to a cut (groan) for all light-sabres sold too, or indeed to rule that light-sabres as represented in Star-Wars may not be sold at all. Whether its worth his time to monitor this is another matter.