I suggest using a URI here for the licenses, with major license links hosted at sites owned by major organisations unlikely to go down (CC, FSF, etc).
For plain SL-viewers, perhaps we could show the licenses as the 'description' of the inventory item or something? (maybe a '/license <item>' command inworld with the inventory item name returns license information?) Adam > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:opensim-dev- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Cortez > Sent: Monday, 30 March 2009 5:32 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Legal Issues was RFC Profiles > > >> I'm not sure I would support having Creative Commons be the default > though... > >> while it is an excellent option for some work and I have used it > for > some content > >> I have developed, it does reduce the creator's rights that are > normally assumed > >> by the Berne convention or US copyright laws. > > This is true. > > With the four component options available for CC, many scenarios are > covered: > > http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ > > But not all. > > All of the CC options assume you allow redistribution, but aside from > that in most cases "Copy-No Mod" would be equivalent to something like > "Attribution No Derivatives" and "Copy-Mod" would essentially be > "Attribution Share-Alike" or "Attribution Non-Commercial." > > What's missing is a "No Distribution" clause. If the organizers had > the > foresight to be complete, rather then altruistic, the addition of a > non-redistribution clause IMHO would have made for the ultimate > mix/match license. > > An "All rights reserved, you are licensed to use this for personal use" > type clause for "No Perms" would be good. > > Lots of ideas, and there will be lots of complexity -- and of course we > don't want to start handing out legal advice -- but as others have > mentioned, if we start with some way of adding asset meta data -- we > can > then grow from there. > > Now of course, for specific grids like say <cough>OSGrid</cough> -- > where I suspect the admin's aren't really in this to be IP rights > cops, and probably don't want people coming after them with lawyers > because some bug exposed an exploitable asset copy mechanism, or > because someone connected a hacked region to the grid to suck assets > out > -- perhaps having the default licensing be something like CC -- which > always guarantees redistribution isn't such a bad thing? > > -- > Michael Cortez > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
