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  1. I thought I'd toss my 2cents in on this. To the OP: Firstly, copyright specifically, as far as art and creative materials only covers the right to reproduce (or copy and distribute publicly) something which has already been set down in a specific form. They KEY here is that you have to have set down in a concrete form. This means it has to be written, drawn/painted/rendered, or recorded. This does not extend to CONCEPTS. So IDEAS don't count. A "shadow demon" is a vague concept. You can't copyright it. From the US copyright office: Copyright does not protect ideas, concepts, systems, or methods of doing something. You may express your ideas in writing or drawings and claim copyright in your description, but be aware that copyright will not protect the idea itself as revealed in your written or artistic work. So the IDEA does not entitle him to any rights. However, on the flipside, Nymph, YOU created an artwork of a skin. That act of setting your idea into a fixed, tangible form, makes YOUR version actually protected by copyright. Unless this guy has artwork that he made that shows a definate match between your skin and his artwork, that could be used to proove that you copied his artwork of a shadowdemon to make your skin, then he's quite honestly got nothing to stand on. You also cannot copyright a name. Another section from the copyright website: Copyright does not protect names, titles, slogans, or short phrases. In some cases, these things may be protected as trademarks. Contact the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, 800-786-9199, for further information. However, copyright protection may be available for logo artwork that contains sufficient authorship. In some circumstances, an artistic logo may also be protected as a trademark. Honestly, like many people who don't understand copyright and what it protects, he's barking up the wrong tree. You are completely within your rights to stand your ground to this bully. Because honestly, that's all it sounds like he's doing. He cannot own a copyright on the name or concept of shadowdemon. That's it. Period. Because that's not what copyright law covers. I highly suggest you educate yourself more fully on what is and isn't copyrightable and don't let him intimidate yourself or your players with this sort of BS. Check out the US copyright office's FAQ, its pretty comprehensive and covers most of what's considered pretty standard in North America and most of Europe.
  2. 16976 sq/m for sale in the quite old Mainland sim of Bruin. It includes TWO protected road sides (both sides of the road are yours), two hill side areas, and a flat area, as well as a protected shoreline into the protected Mamara sea. Gorgeous location for a business or home. Was the home of a mall for many years. A rare parcel with so many features. 16976 sq/m - 4002 obj - 52000L Come and have a look.
  3. Thanks for the reply! Yeah, it took me years to aquire all the peices to put this chunk of land back into one peice. Like everything else on the mainland it had, at one time, been carved up for ad farms and the like, but I slowly got it all back together, and yeah, its not a common configuration, being able to have all the features in one swath of land. I appreciate your advice! I'll have to chew on this a little more it looks like.
  4. So, here's my situation. I've been in SL since 2005, and I've got a pretty big chunk of mainland that I've been stewarding for some time. Over the years, I've managed to carve out a nice rectangular, nearly quarter sim chunk that includes a hill that looks out on the ocean, two protected road sides, a flat area and a lovely ocean side hill down to a protected shoreline out to a Linden ocean sim. It's in an old, but fairly quiet sim all told not far from the Shelter.(although not in that same sim) Its a nice bit of land that I ran my mall on for years as well as my main shop. Sadly, like so many others I'm rapidly careening to the end of my financial rope IRL and I really can't afford to hold onto it much longer. But I don't really want to abandon it, and while I've had chunks of it for sale before, it never sold, and I've been doing a lot of reading. So I see that I have some options. I could 1) Try to sell the whole kaboodle at a stupid low price to a land flipper or bot. 2) Try to rent the land, or parcels at least to recoup tier, 3) Chop the land up and try to sell the parcels I know in the current market, I'll never get what I spent on the land back, but that's not really what I want. I want to lessen my financial tier burden. If I could make regular tier in world, I wouldn't sell, but my sales for my store have been less than stellar and dwindling steadily over the last few years. I'd like to know from people who are more in the know, which of the options is more feasable? Would I be more likely to rent the land out? How would one divvy up such a parcel to make the land more attractive to a buyer? Should I divvy it for renters? What shapes and features should be included? ( I mean, i've got it all, hillside with a view, flat, two roadsides and a waterside...) I'm pretty sure the waterside is the most valuble chunk of land, and I'd much rather sell it to a person actually wanting to live there than a land flipper, but what about the rest of it? Advice? Comments? Offers? XD Thanks in advance to any replies.
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