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Chip Midnight
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Join date: 1 May 2003
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12-21-2007 07:57
From: Malachi Petunia Has anyone considered whether this proof of concept is covered by the Fair Use exception to US copyright law? Fair use is extremely limited and covers only "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research." They could argue that it's covered as research but I believe that refers only to academic research, not commercial R&D, and it certainly wouldn't cover them for offering it as a service to others. From: Monalisa Robbiani I think this is cool. It proves that virtual worlds can be opened up so we can travel from one world to another. Isn't that the ultimate goal - to set a common standard for 3d content? I don't find that to be a desirable goal, personally. SL's economy works because it's a closed system where being a small fish in a relatively small pond can still be profitable. An individual can profit but it's not worth a major corporations time except as a marketing gimmick. Opening travel between VR worlds may well be the end of that. Twenty years ago Times Square was pure NYC. Now there's a TGI Fridays and an Olive Garden there. Is that a good thing? That may well be analogous to the future of VR worlds.
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JayDee Unknown
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12-21-2007 08:41
From: Monalisa Robbiani I think this is cool. It proves that virtual worlds can be opened up so we can travel from one world to another. Not really. Going from world to world has nothing to do with the content available in the other worlds. From: Monalisa Robbiani Isn't that the ultimate goal - to set a common standard for 3d content? Depends on your agenda. 3D standards squash diversity and creativity. Good for some bad for others. From: Monalisa Robbiani
This has nothing to do the with copyright issues. Website designs might also be copyrighted, but still HTML itself is open and free for everyone to be hosted on their server.
Anytime something comes up that has the ability to rip content that is someones work it has everything to do with copyright issues. |
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Monalisa Robbiani
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12-22-2007 05:48
From: JayDee Unknown
Depends on your agenda. 3D standards squash diversity and creativity. Good for some bad for others.
Without common standards of protocol and content there would be no internet. THis doesn't mean that on the internet everything is "free". Content and design are still copyrighted, but the building stones are not. From: someone Anytime something comes up that has the ability to rip content that is someones work it has everything to do with copyright issues. Imagine the use of the alphabet would be a matter of copyright. There would be nothing, we would still live in caves. Transfer standards for 3d content are like the letters of the alphabet. It is the foundation for any "3d web" that might come up. |
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JayDee Unknown
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12-22-2007 07:45
From: Monalisa Robbiani Without common standards of protocol and content there would be no internet. THis doesn't mean that on the internet everything is "free". Content and design are still copyrighted, but the building stones are not.
Imagine the use of the alphabet would be a matter of copyright. There would be nothing, we would still live in caves. Transfer standards for 3d content are like the letters of the alphabet. It is the foundation for any "3d web" that might come up. We must be talking about two completetly different things.  |