The tutorial and test

[Gearsawe Stonecutter]

Anyone heard anymore of the tutorial and test we will have to take to become mesh upload certified? Heck how many bugs will be in the test? Will be useless to release mesh if we can't be certified and be allowed to upload meshes.

[WADE1 Jya]

This is just hearsay basically, but I heard it is basically just this:

1. Identify yourself solidly

2. Promise not to steal IP

Maybe wrapped in a bit more blah blah & links to useful resources or something....

This step makes sure all legal penalties & lawsuits come back to the uploader, not Linden Lab, when the inevetable ripfest begins. It also allows Linden Lab to simply disappear all accounts involved in mesh theivery.

Pure awesome if this is truly how it will function.

As long as you're an honest creator, I think it will be not a problem at all :matte-motes-asleep-2:

I am very hopeful this is how it will work, otherwise I wouldn't expect SL to be around a couple months after mesh import opens as Linden Lab would be torn apart by lawyers from the likes of Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Disney, Blizzard, etc when all these companies 3D assets begin to be sold & virally distributed here.

[Niko Kozower]

Lol well put. I can hear it now "I BOUGHT NEED FOR SPEED I SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE THE CARS!"... yep all the cry babies are really gunna come out once mesh hits.

[Vivienne Schell]

"This step makes sure all legal penalties & lawsuits come back to the uploader, not Linden Lab, when the inevetable ripfest begins. "

It´s not so easy. If Linden Lab cannot deliver *valid" identities of uploaders, or if the uploaders will be located in a country which did not sign international copyright law treaties, Linden Lab will be held liable. There will be some legal problems there, anyway, cause Linden Lab *charges* for uploads. Second Life is not a "safe heaven".

Allowing unrevised model imports is a risk, and we all will be endangered to a certain degree, unfortunately. Not only the uploaders. And if these people are smart enough they will get away easily while we will not be so lucky in worst case.

[rgrene]

I wasn't aware of all this. Where is this being discussed? I googled for it but was unable to find any information, at all. A link to the source would be appreciated.

[DanielRavenNest Noe]

Upload Enablement

[arton Rotaru]

YAY :matte-motes-sunglasses-3:

[Nix Manx]

I must admit im abit concerned with this, what would happen for example if someone were to fully create a TRON bike from scratch in blender and then import it? Is that classed as copywrite?

 

 

[Dain Shan]

Yepp it is...

even if you, by chance, create something that is already under copyright, you are in the bad.

 

[Drongle McMahon]

Alright, who's going to volunteer to answer them all wrong and see what happens?

Is question 8 is ambiguous? Presumably if a well known romantic song is old enough, it can be out of copyright and thus in the public domain. But then the recording would not be so old (unless it's on a wax cylinder). Do you have copyright on your particular arrangement and/or  recording of a song whose original copyright has expired, such as an old nursery rhyme?

By the way, the new server requiring the test is called DRTSIM. I suppose that's Digital Rights Test SIMulator.

Or ir could be Death to Resident Thieves Stealing Infringing Meshes. :matte-motes-agape:

Any other offers?

[Da5id Weatherwax]

If the original song is "traditional" or otherwise in the public domain, anyone can cover it but any individual recording is still under copyright. I wouldnt be allowed to market a SL fiddle that plays either Dave Swarbricks or Ric Sanders version of "the 4-poster bed" unless I contacted the rights holder (in their case likely the record label) and got permission to do so but its the recording that is others intellectual property not the original tune.. so if I were a decent enough fiddler myself to make a recording of it that I held the rights to then seling a fiddle that played that version would be fine.

[Freefall Starspear]

could someone please fix the test? Many of use took it and passed and still get that annoying message leading us to take a test thats been taken and passed. Its like a twilightzone show.