"No Transfer" textures

Second Life is not Star Wars Galaxies. On SWG, once you have "ground" to earn a master profession, producing things is easy, you just click a button to use a skill. In real life, it doesn't work that way. Someone might need to take months or years of practice to become a great artist, but that does not mean that they don't still need to work for hours or days to produce each individual work of art.

Have you seen Damanios's work? His houses and textures are of very high quality, the kind of quality that requires a real world artist to produce. To compare that to a crafted item in SWG just isn't reasonable.

Beside the point already made. To what permissions would the items in SWG translate? My assumption: no-mod, no-copy, transfer.
SL offers a much wider range of permissions/selling options. Each with their specific function and use. It's comparing apples and oranges.

I agree that one of these uses can, and sometimes is, to prevent others from selling items they bought. But generally they use of no transfer is, so people can actually enhance the functionality to a customer or protect them from losing an item. If you ask, a lot of vendors have no issue selling a copy/no-transfer item as no-copy/transfer. As long as you accept the enhanced risks. And realize there is work involved in changing the perms of complex items.

If you desperately need to compare SL to SVC, and concernig textures: View mod-copy-transfer textures as not only selling your items, but also selling away all the skills you amassed to be able produce/sell them in SWG.

Also unlike most games...in SL the creators of the textures retain the rights to them Real World Legally.

The permission system exists to protect those rights.

Except it doesn't do it very well, as witness the above-discussed need for folks who sell full-perm textures to specify in a licensing document that not all the permission system allows is actually granted. Same problem for animators, I gather, and for scripters (at least in my case) who would really like to sometimes restrict *next*-next-owner permissions.

And I realize now, after checking in-world, that the ability to get the UUID of a no-transfer texture is, um, an artifact. ('Nuff said.) Sorry for any confusion I may have injected into the discussion with that.

In games such as SWG, the creators do retain the rights; it is just that the people playing the games who craft items are not the creators. Crafting is nothing at all like actually creating the item in the first place. It is a mechanistic process that gives you in-world possession, that's all.

No it isn't. There are plenty of items around in various worlds and games that are untransferrable ("soulbound" items in WoW for instance) and very few that you can arbitrarily modify in any way you like.

Items are copy/no-trans so that they can be rezzed multiple times and copied within inventory, as well as being able to be easily updated or replaced if there is a failure in SL, which is hardly uncommon; if somebody has a no-trans item I can give them new versions as much as I like if they say "I never received this" or "there was a server error and it vanished" or, for that matter, if I create a new version. No-copy vehicles, particularly, are practically worthless.

So, not really, then.

Thank you everyone who's replied. You've given me a lot of food for thought. Here are some more facts.

1. There is no (or at least I didn't see even when I went back yesterday) any notice that the textures could not be used to make something that was then sold to others. So, there was no agreement, implied or otherwise, at the time of sale. The problem only came after the owner of the textures saw I was attempting to sell clothing with his textures.

2. I had no problem applying the texture to a prim to make a box for sale.

3. I used Gimp to make the clothing and had no problems with that either.

4. I used an alt (after I removed her permission to modify my objects) to buy from a sales box I created. She was able to purchase multiple times so the textured items both copied and transferred.

I think at this point that I'm entitled to use the textures as I see fit as long as I don't sell them as textures. If I'm wrong please point that out to me.

Thanks again and Merry Christmas to those that celebrate this holiday.

Adrienne