[Name change privacy issues]

3 minutes ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

LL doesn't own a copyright to images taken by other people.

Of course does LL own copyright of images taken of their own software.

But apparently we disagree here and won't get further.

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3 minutes ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

I even spelled it all out for them. It got ignored. Imagine that.

No, you wrote an interpretation of fair use policy, but my reply was to "fair use only applies to copyrighted material and since screenshots in SL are NOT copyrighted, fair use has no bearing on anything." He says that Screenshots aren't copyrighted in the first place so this would not be about fair use, and I quoted LL saying that they grant copyright permissions as long as they respect the privacy interests.

[Name change privacy issues]

2 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:

Again, there is NO copyright claim.   

"This policy gives broad copyright permissions for snapshots and machinima, but asks that you respect the privacy interests of members of the community. "

I'm really not sure what is unclear about this. LL does not give copyright permissions unless you respect the "privacy interests of the members of the community." So YES there IS a copyright claim. What are you disputing here?

[Name change privacy issues]

Just now, Rowan Amore said:

Your comment that started this was that LL will disallow something from SL to be posted elsewhere.

No. That is NOT what I said. It can be almost impossible to purge information hosted on some shady server. What I said was that SL could purge the site from coming up on Google, based on copyright claims.

[Name change privacy issues]

5 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:

Since you're confused, fair use only applies to copyrighted material and since screenshots in SL are NOT copyrighted, fair use has no bearing on anything.

"This policy gives broad copyright permissions for snapshots and machinima, but asks that you respect the privacy interests of members of the community. " (http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Snapshot_and_machinima_policy#Copyright_Licenses)

Do you think that a snapshot with a malicious intent to disclose private information respects the privacy interests of members of the community? Looking forward to hearing from you.

[Name change privacy issues]

Just now, Rowan Amore said:

Fair use is taking the picture. 

No. Fair use would be about the process of publishing the picture.

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1 minute ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

No. Not when people do that sort of thing all the time and it turns out they don't know as much about it as they think they do most of the time.

I'm still waiting for the argument why publishing screenshots with malicious intend (for example disclosing private information) falls under fair use policy. But all there is is polemics.

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Just now, Silent Mistwalker said:

 

No. Not blind. Not a child throwing a temper tantrum because I didn't get my way either.

Well it's a bit silly to accuse someone of not knowing about fair use policy when they were the first ones to even mention fair use policy in this thread, isn't it?

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2 minutes ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

They always find ways of dancing around the truth without ever admitting to being incorrect. 🙄

Are you blind? I mentioned fair use policy like 10 posts before yours

But let me quote, maybe you are in fact not able to find it in a thread consisting of 3 pages. So here you go, you are welcome:

 

"So you're saying that publishing screenshots with the intent of disclosing somebody's private information is covered by fair use policy, because this would be the only case where a screenshot does not impose a copyright infringement. Ridiculous."

[Name change privacy issues]

3 minutes ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

How about Yang v. Mic Network, Inc., No. 18-CV-7628 AJN, 2019 WL 4640263 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 24 2019).

 

Court Deems Screenshot Fair Game for Fair Use Defense in Copyright Action

As I (actually already) stated, if you want to say that publishing screenshots with the intent of disclosing somebody's private information is covered by fair use policy.

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Just now, Rowan Amore said:

That would have to be taken up with the website that is posting those pictures/information. 

Don't distract from the core of this discussion, which is that you said that those screenshots are not copyright infringements.

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17 minutes ago, Solar Legion said:

A quick search would have told you that the majority of screenshots aren't copyright violations.

So you're saying that publishing screenshots with the intent of disclosing somebody's private information is covered by fair use policy, because this would be the only case where a screenshot does not impose a copyright infringement. Ridiculous.

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2 minutes ago, Solar Legion said:

Except ... they aren't.

Better just keep reacting to posts. A quick google search would have saved you the time to actually write out stuff.

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Just now, Rowan Amore said:

From the ToS.

You denied that screenshots impose a copyright infringement, and I showed you arguments why they are. The ToS have nothing to do with whether something is or is not a copyright infringement.

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2 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:

If that were true, anything people posted on Flickr would do the same.  

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. There are lots of "let's play" on youtube. And surprise. Every "let's play" on youtube is a copyright infringement. The thing is. The creators don't have an interest in taking them down. They're still copyright infringements. Just like screenshots.

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3 minutes ago, Alwin Alcott said:

i have no idea what "that"site is

That is apparent.

Btw,  a screenshot can be easily interpreted as copyright infringement.

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1 minute ago, Alwin Alcott said:

LL has no saying about external posted information.

What is posted on that site is likely to infringe LL copyright. LL can purge the site from google. Easy. Got it?

[Name change privacy issues]

If the platform is what I think it is (don't mention names or links please) then I would try filing a ticket with LL and make them aware. This is mostly about the fact that they do not take down personal information posted by someone else. Probably LL would be successful in having the site purged from google results at least.

[ban on all breedables please!]

 

8 hours ago, Dratzo said:

ITS A SUGGETION NOT A QUESTION!

If you were honest you'd admit It's just a rant out of saltiness. I mean, if I were making good revenue with a sales strategy that others view as too close to gambling (rightfully) and somebody took that away from me I'd probably be salty, too. Everyone is salty when revenue is taken away from them. How about you just adapt?

[New Gacha Policy Discussion]

If people claim that sellers are going to make less money after this change then it's only because they're not forcing people to buy products that they don't want.

[Convert Blender file to Maya...]

On 7/24/2021 at 1:22 PM, Charlotte Bartlett said:

Also you would be FAR better off doing clothing if just starting out in a (legal) copy of FREE Blender.  

Have you ever considered trying to answer her question without accusing them (without proof or anything) of using pirated software? Just wondering.

[How much influence do the big land owners have on Second Life?]

So this question occurred to me during a Concierge meeting, particularly when it came to the question that gets asked over and over again, if the requirement for a Homestead to own a full region will be lifted at any point of time. The answer given (and I'm recalling this from memory as best as I can, I don't have it in writing and I please be corrected if I recall anything wrongly) was that people just wouldn't have fun with the lower prim limit and a Homestead was meant to be connected to a full region. And this made me really shake my head because I think residents who are curious about homesteads have a fair idea of what they can expect from a 5k prim limit ("You think you do, but you don't" - A few people will know what I mean with that unrelated quote.)

When focus changed to if/when land prices could be lowered, it was said in a subclause that some people heavily complained last time Linden lowered their land prices.

And sure it makes sense. Everyone who could afford a homestead but cannot afford a full region depends on renting a homestead from a third party. I wonder if the big players actively approach Linden and make sure that this requirement is kept in place.

Any other opinions?

 

[SL Performance]

1 hour ago, Sid Nagy said:

Result: all the efforts with nice jewelry, extra layers etc. are mostly for nothing

Not according to my experience. In my SL cloud people are definitely not at the point where they can't wear "nice jewelry". Of course this is subjective because nobody has the data, so I'm saying this based on what I see and on what feedback I get. (And yes I know that there are even people who rarely leave their sim because their computer is this weak that their viewer would just crash)

[Why Does SL Not Have 2 Factor Authentication For Accounts?]

5 hours ago, Innula Zenovka said:

'm simply asking if anyone  knows the scale of of the problem.   

I'm making up a wild example as comparison. A company that saves all passwords as plaintext should not be asking "well how many passwords have been stolen in the past?" before they decide to change their behaviour.

[Understanding Texture Console]

Hi!

I'm trying to understand the texture console and have a few questions:

CRE - Wiki says "Texture needs to be created." Does this mean the texture has not been downloaded yet and does not yet exist as file on the disk?

DEU - Wiki doesn't mention this state. What is this?

How can I determine the bottleneck? I'm using a RAM Drive as cache location. I mostly see CRE and DEU states. Are there any values to tweak? Is it a single thread that downloads the textures or multiple? Is the amount of threads configurable?

 

Would appreciate if anyone could help me out here!