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What's this about Second Life and what's uploaded?

wancowwancow Posts: 2,708
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I just saw Wendy Pusey (Wilmap's) signature and I had to ask...

What's going on with Second Life having rights to stuff uploaded? Can anyone fill me in?

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  • WilmapWilmap Posts: 2,917
    edited December 1969

    That information was sent to me by a friend. I have not actually seen it myself.

  • robkelkrobkelk Posts: 3,259
    edited November 2013

    wancow said:
    I just saw Wendy Pusey (Wilmap's) signature and I had to ask...

    What's going on with Second Life having rights to stuff uploaded? Can anyone fill me in?


    It's right in section 2.3 of their Terms of Service. It's a rather blatant rights-grab, far beyond what Linden Labs needs in order to run Second Life.
    Post edited by robkelk on
  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited December 1969

    Linden Lab updated their TOS to allow them explicit rights to your content to do whatever they want with it. My bold.

    http://lindenlab.com/tos


    2.3 You grant Linden Lab certain licenses to your User Content.

    You retain any and all Intellectual Property Rights you already hold under applicable law in Content you upload, publish, and submit to or through the Servers, Websites, and other areas of the Service, subject to the rights, licenses, and other terms of this Agreement, including any underlying rights of other users or Linden Lab in Content that you may use or modify.

    In connection with Content you upload, publish, or submit to any part of the Service, you affirm, represent, and warrant that you own or have all necessary Intellectual Property Rights, licenses, consents, and permissions to use and authorize Linden Lab and users of Second Life to use the Content in the manner contemplated by the Service and these Terms of Service.

    Because the law may or may not recognize certain Intellectual Property Rights in any particular Content, you should consult a lawyer if you want legal advice regarding your legal rights in a specific situation. You acknowledge and agree that you are responsible for knowing, protecting, and enforcing any Intellectual Property Rights you hold, and that Linden Lab cannot do so on your behalf.

    Except as prohibited by law, you hereby waive, and you agree to waive, any moral rights (including attribution and integrity) that you may have in any User Content, even if it is altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you. To the extent not waivable, you irrevocably agree not to exercise such rights (if any) in a manner that interferes with any exercise of the granted rights. You understand that you will not receive any fees, sums, consideration or remuneration for any of the rights granted in this Section.

    Except as otherwise described in any Additional Terms (such as a contest’s official rules) which will govern the submission of your User Content, you hereby grant to Linden Lab, and you agree to grant to Linden Lab, the non-exclusive, unrestricted, unconditional, unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, and cost-free right and license to use, copy, record, distribute, reproduce, disclose, sell, re-sell, sublicense (through multiple levels), modify, display, publicly perform, transmit, publish, broadcast, translate, make derivative works of, and otherwise exploit in any manner whatsoever, all or any portion of your User Content (and derivative works thereof), for any purpose whatsoever in all formats, on or through any media, software, formula, or medium now known or hereafter developed, and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed, and to advertise, market, and promote the same. You agree that the license includes the right to copy, analyze and use any of your Content as Linden Lab may deem necessary or desirable for purposes of debugging, testing, or providing support or development services in connection with the Service and future improvements to the Service. The license granted in this Section 2.3 is referred to as the "Service Content License."

    Linden Lab has no obligation to monitor or enforce your intellectual property rights to your User Content, but you grant us the right to protect and enforce our rights to your User Content, including by bringing and controlling actions in your name and on your behalf (at Linden Lab’s cost and expense, to which you hereby consent and irrevocably appoint Linden Lab as your attorney-in-fact, with the power of substitution and delegation, which appointment is coupled with an interest).

  • wancowwancow Posts: 2,708
    edited December 1969

    oooo... that's bad... okay, no secondlife for me!

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,263
    edited December 1969

    I'm sure they're loosing a lot of people over that change. I quiet playing back in 06 so I'm not up to date on anything

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    edited December 1969

    Frank0314 said:
    I'm sure they're loosing a lot of people over that change. I quiet playing back in 06 so I'm not up to date on anything

    You assume that anyone reads the EULA. Many Secondlifers are kids who are not likely to read/care about what is there anyway.

    Kendall

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,263
    edited December 1969

    Kendall Sears said:
    Frank0314 said:
    I'm sure they're loosing a lot of people over that change. I quiet playing back in 06 so I'm not up to date on anything

    You assume that anyone reads the EULA. Many Secondlifers are kids who are not likely to read/care about what is there anyway.

    Kendall

    Very true

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