Comments on: Should the Second Life® Library Be No Transfer? http://shoppingcartdisco.com/gossip/should-the-items-in-the-second-life%c2%ae-library-be-no-transfer/ Second Life's #1 Fashion and Gossip Rag Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:58:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Diva Regina http://shoppingcartdisco.com/gossip/should-the-items-in-the-second-life%c2%ae-library-be-no-transfer/comment-page-1/#comment-50223 Diva Regina Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:04:46 +0000 http://shoppingcartdisco.com/?p=8518#comment-50223 I know and respect Sachi, so I give a lot of credibility to what she says. The hassle (and the damage to the brand identity if the mods are unskillful) is worth trying to fix. I think her approach of creating a "business" avatar as the creator of record for library items might be a good approach, although that way her visibility as the creator of the item is reduced. Perhaps "Businesswoman Shoes by Sachi Vixen", for example, could be the name of the item with Podunk Pipsqueak as the creator of record - thereby offering PR value without the difficulties she described. Since I presume that Linden Labs has paid the creators for the library items they've created, hopefully at a higher rate for the full-perm status, I don't know that the adapting and reselling of the item is a complaint that can be fairly made. (It should be understood that Sachi isn't saying this - it's just something that could come up.) Linden Labs is, <i>de facto</i> giving new creators a starting point for modifying and selling something. I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I know and respect Sachi, so I give a lot of credibility to what she says. The hassle (and the damage to the brand identity if the mods are unskillful) is worth trying to fix. I think her approach of creating a “business” avatar as the creator of record for library items might be a good approach, although that way her visibility as the creator of the item is reduced. Perhaps “Businesswoman Shoes by Sachi Vixen”, for example, could be the name of the item with Podunk Pipsqueak as the creator of record – thereby offering PR value without the difficulties she described.

Since I presume that Linden Labs has paid the creators for the library items they’ve created, hopefully at a higher rate for the full-perm status, I don’t know that the adapting and reselling of the item is a complaint that can be fairly made. (It should be understood that Sachi isn’t saying this – it’s just something that could come up.) Linden Labs is, de facto giving new creators a starting point for modifying and selling something. I’m not sure that’s a bad thing.

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