Elizaveta Markova

Except people who try to follow them play by different rules than people who ignore them with impunity. But you're right, we can bring our own work, which might be the most interesting approach, anyway.

I don't mind that LL doesn't catch people doing the wrong thing. I mind that they make it impossible for me to do the right thing. They claim a right to do literally anything they want with anything that's uploaded. No one will license me material to upload on those terms.

Nice gallery and build, Chic, thanks. I've tried buying art from galleries, but there is no provenance. Except for photographs of SL itself, I suspect that in most cases the creators didn't create (nor license) anything but the prims the pictures are pasted on. So SL is a Haven for Creators of SL-specific content like clothes and builds, and a sewer of rip-offs of ex-SL photography, music, and other media? And LL not only doesn't mind, they encourage it with license terms that make it impractical to bring legitimate content? I've stayed away from OpenSim, much as I like the idea, because so much of the content is ripped off from SL. But if the content of SL, for media that I care about, is also ripped off, I'm losing my way. I'd like to take the high road, but I can't find it.

I am trying to understand how to use licensed content, for example photography, in SL. Every club has photographs on the wall. Where do they come from? I am willing to, indeed wish to, pay photographers and other creators for the right to use their work. But a typical license doesn't authorize me to sublicense Linden Labs to do whatever they please with someone else's work. How do people cope? I'd love to hear about related issues for music. For example, do any vocal artists have rights to the karaoke tracks they sing to? How do they acquire such rights?