Copyright – Nalates’ Things & Stuff

Second Life News 2018 w45 Election Day

2018/11/07 by Nalates Urriah

Busy with RL last week and looks like this week. The Adobe updates that screwed things are not helping.

Servers

The main channel is getting an update to version #18.10.25.521081. This version is apparently the same as last week’s version 18.10.19.520868, but with some fixes to the logging. That version was all Internal Changes.

Blue Steel and Le Tigre will update to version #18.11.01.521328, listed as about Land impact/streaming costs

Magnum gets version #18.11.01.521329, with Logging improvements and land impact/streaming costs

From the Server-Scripting UG I hear the Snack Channel will get an EEP update.

Sansar: Lindens Can Be Slow Learners

2018/01/122018/01/11 by Nalates Urriah

Warning – Things are changing quickly as this story unfolds. Some blog articles have changed since I started writing… So, if something is different from you expect from reading this… please remember time and change are factors. We just witnessed a community backlash against the Lab’s heavy handed Intellectual Property Rights protection when Strawberry Singh … Read more

Copyright Fixed

2017/12/14 by Nalates Urriah

Well, the Lab proved me wrong. A couple of hours ago the Lab apologized to Strawberry. An Apology to Strawberry Singh & A Call to YouTubers: “Un-Cease & Desist”. This is a legitimate apology and a promise to change company policy. Worth your time to read. I am actually quite proud of Linden Lab.

Copyright – Fair Use

2015/09/15 by Nalates Urriah

Copyright is basically a way for authors of books, songs, music, pictures, and movies to protect their work and profit from it. In Second Life™ we have to deal with copyrights. A new court case just clarified the requirement for consideration of fair use prior to filing a take-down notice.

This is an example of the problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjmbcLhtMYo

In the video above people are taking candied videos of their kids and those got compiled into a YouTube presentation. You probably noticed but didn’t think about the background music caught by the video camera. In a case known as The Dancing Baby Universal filed a DMCA take-down against a Ms Lenz because a song by Prince was playing in the background of her video. It wasn’t added later. It was what the baby was dancing to when the video was candidly captured.

Second Life: DMCA Noise

2015/06/03 by Nalates Urriah

This DMCA thing is a law I absolutely hate. It turns the American concept of innocent until proven guilty on its head. This has made it a prime candidate for abuse and caters to large corporate interests and extortion.

Rogue Cop! 2 by Larry Vinaver, on Flickr

We have a number of people covering the DCMA Notice given to WordPress to take down photos in a users blog, Mademoisl-Eve.com. You may be wondering why this is a big deal. I mean someone got a DMCA notice and took stuff down. So?

Second Life: DMCA Abuse – Fight Back

2014/11/212014/11/19 by Nalates Urriah

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA is pretty well known and abused in Second Life™. In RL it is also commonly known and abused. The law should be over turned and I expect it would be if it ever made it to the Supreme Court. The law makes people prove their innocence, which is upside down in America and most free market economies. The the reason the law continues to stand is the it favors politicians, big business, and the wealthy. Individuals and small business can’t afford to fight at the Supreme Court level.

The WordPress organization is fighting the censorship that can be imposed by abuse of DMCA. They wrote about it here: Striking Back Against Censorship. Others are in the fight too. One of those is a company named Automattic. They gained fame when fighting Janet Jackson’s take down demand. (Reference)