I spent months working on a collection of lightrays and then decided to put them up for sale full perm for other builders to use. I chose to let others resell the lightrays as long as the permissions were set to 'no transfer'. I set the price at $L300, which I thought was a reasonable price, and each lightray could be purchased for $L40 by those who only needed a single or a few lightrays. Then someone decided to put my entire lightray collection up for sale on SL marketplace in a 'no transfer' version for $L25!! Less than I sell a single lightray for. I was shocked and appauled but knew I couldn't do anything to prevent it as I'd given permission to do so. Yes, perhaps it was a bit naive and maybe I trusted too much in people respecting my work as most other creators do. But what made me angry was that the seller markets the collection using MY picture - only the text has been changed, but still my picture ...which I assume she must have copied/pasted from my store. At least she could have made her own. Anyway, I decided to do nothing to begin with as throwing myself into a battle over a few pennies seemed undignifying. But then I read the seller's profile and noticed how she markets MY work under her own design company's name. That really pissed me off! Besides, what she was doing was just as illegal as using my picture, which I never gave anyone the rights to use. I contacted her about this but received no answer. Then I thought about putting the price of my own collection down and give the earnings to charity which would be sure to wipe her ass off the market. But by doing this, I would only be doing the same as her; dumping the prices on lightrays so that no one else, including other creators than myself, would have a chance to sell their original work in this segment of the market. It seems that no matter what I do it either hurts other creators or I will stand out as a greedy, bitter person quibbling over a few pennies. So the question is what can you do in a situation like this one? The first thing I did was to check and change the permissions on all my other items to prevent anything like this from happening again ...hoping that most will respect it as there is no copyright police in SL as there should be. But apart from that it seems there is little else I can do. Being wiped off the market by someone else selling the work I spent months on perfecting really sucks. The possibilities of protecting your work in SL are LOUSY to say the least. If anyone infringes on your copyrights, it is up to you to solve the matter and take any legal action if required. But everybody knows that no one will do anything about it as the amounts most creators earn in SL are negligible. But there are some who live on this or hope to do so. But if it's all about earning a fast buck and not caring about anyone else on the market, the prices will one day be so low that we may be looking at a future SL where all the talented creators have gone elsewhere to build. Is this really what we want with SL? Maybe, if we creators unite and channel money into a common fund which will have the single purpose of funding and supporting us in protecting our copyrights, this would have some preventive effect ...?