Mesh importing from games increasing?

[Eata Kitty]

No names or links as I am sure that is against the rules.

For a time it was patchy with mostly imports of game items from free model sites (mostly one site in particular) but it seems to be heating up. In the last week half a dozen stores have listed a good two dozen Skyrim rips. Mostly helmets, melee weapons and statues.

As people get comfortable with the tools involved and the lack of risk this will only get worse.

[Catherine Foulon]

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Eata Kitty wrote:

No names or links as I am sure that is against the rules.

For a time it was patchy with mostly imports of game items from free model sites (mostly one site in particular) but it seems to be heating up. In the last week half a dozen stores have listed a good two dozen Skyrim rips. Mostly helmets, melee weapons and statues.

As people get comfortable with the tools involved and the lack of risk this will only get worse.

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And what is the problem? Since years ppl steal textures from websites and sell them in SL. And they aren't care about copyright while they love to talk about their OWN (not others, nooo) coprights.

So what is diffrent?

 

[Pamela Galli]

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Eata Kitty wrote:

No names or links as I am sure that is against the rules.

For a time it was patchy with mostly imports of game items from free model sites (mostly one site in particular) but it seems to be heating up. In the last week half a dozen stores have listed a good two dozen Skyrim rips. Mostly helmets, melee weapons and statues.

As people get comfortable with the tools involved and the lack of risk this will only get worse.

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The interesting thing is that when LL bought Xstreet there was this massive purge of anything faintly like trademarked content.  I had to remove description text like "inspired by Givenchy" for cryin out loud.  Now, game and other rips, often with labels, seem to be fine with LL. I have heard it suggested that it is not only fine but intended, but we just won't go there. :-)

 

[Masami Kuramoto]

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Eata Kitty wrote:

In the last week half a dozen stores have listed a good two dozen Skyrim rips.

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Did you report them to Bethesda Softworks? What was their response?

[Xavorin Whitesong]

Don't report to the game developers. Chances are your email address would get filtered out as spam. It's not UP to you to reach out to them, nor do they have the time to look into every claim some SL user makes.

 

Report this to LL directly. They have a legal team who's job it is, is to validate whether it's a rip or not, and if it is, to get in touch with the IP owners and find a solution.

[Masami Kuramoto]

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Xavorin Whitesong wrote:

Report this to LL directly. They have a legal team who's job it is, is to validate whether it's a rip or not, and if it is, to get in touch with the IP owners and find a solution.

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No, that's not their job at all. In fact they would be stupid to get involved in these things.

Read the law.

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

Yes..either report to the original IP owner or don't report at all. LL has got nothing to do with it until the IP owner appraoches them.