On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Sarge Misfit <[email protected]> wrote: > Doesn't HG already land a person at 128, 128, ground? > > The reason I'm asking about this is that I am planning on making my > stand-alone public and having a good ToS in place is important. I > don't want to end up setting up a visitor as violating anything. Other > recent discussions have raised this issue, mostly about avatars, but > also the very important issue of intellectual property protection. > > For example, the DMCA applies to US-based grids, but I'm Canadian, so > my ToS should include something about Canadian IP protection law > having jurisdiction. I think. > The real hook is that the law gets "messy" since there are possibly 3 different countries involved and the overlap in laws may cause conflicts. 1 users physical location 2 users POP /network "location" 3 location for the grid server/ grid owner <---- this may actually be a fourth location
I would think that somebody needs to throw enough "chum" into a shark pool to get this sorted out as a first pass effort. In this case i think that the stricter law applies (which would be the US DMCA) for those using a Canadian Grid in the US. -- Robert L Martin _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
