Stolen business name?

Because Lexxi Gynoid is an SL resident and has, from what I can tell, no real-world recognition. It is not surprising to find her work in SL.

These artists have a substantial real-world presence:

Boris Vallejo
Julie Bell
Luis Royo
Lorenzo Sperlonga
Jose Del Nido
Chris Achilleos

I would be shocked to find their work legitimately in SL except as part of a fooled-by-media-hype experiment. I certainly would not expect to find it legitimately for sale in Phil's virtual furniture store.

Ok, you could certainly be right and I"m not above saying I have no idea if you are, or not. It's possible you're not......I've gone there for specific pieces of art, and have never seen those other artists there. (I'm single minded like that, I find what I want in a store, buy it and leave). So, I am not going to try to convince you of anything, admitting that I don't know enough, other than artists I know from inworld exhibiting there. It has been, more than just her, at different times, too, I believe.

Actually, that's not true. A trademark does not need to be registered to be valid and defendable. All a registration does is make it easier to defend. It's like writing, art, music, and such, where copyright exists automatically, but it's easier to defend if you can prove first ownership.

You conveniently excluded your Sales employee inside the Skybox at 450m, hoping to deflect attention by offering too much information about the others. Was the sales employee alone in the enclosed skybox also helping customers? -haha
You need to read the new LL rules regarding Bots and scripted agents on Plots to be included for Search. It's not just Bots that have to be registered but also avatars that act as models, greeters or shop staff. They all should voluntarily declare themselves as not counting towards traffic. I think you as shop owner might be exempt and could get away with it, although i'm not 100 % sure. The others have to be declared though. Given your popularity on this thread, you should expect to be a target for future AR's. LL will be clamping down hard. Given you have a whole HS sim, isn't it a bit ironic you should locate your resident friend directly above your shop, when she could easily have been located on the remaining 3/4 of the sim and possibly have her own plot cut for her. Reading most of this thread, you come across as one big bullshitter, each few pages exposes you even moreso.

Anya choosing your victim by his infractions does not make Floyd's action right. It seems odd that you think that this tactic would be effective.

I don't think Floyd's use of the PrimSavers name is right. I wish he'd change it.

Hypocrisy doesn't respect right or wrong, it simply is.

No one has to support Floyd to recognize the irony of Phil complaining about "violating the rules" when something isn't specifically against the ToS.

Phil is no better than Floyd overall, and people who keep jumping to his side do nothing but prove their own hypocrisy and bias.

I had almost forgotten about the copyright infringement, too. Everyone loves to jump on Floyd for his alleged unethical behavior, but Phil's unethical behavior is just A-OK.

Who is everybody? I haven't mentioned ethics concerning Floyd at all. And you're forgetting that Phil has only been guilty of some people's idea of unethical behaviour, but not everyone's by any stretch of the imagination.

I'd much rather have people like Phil around than nasty people, a small number of whom have frequented this thread, purely for the sake of being nasty.

Are you speaking of yourself in the third person now, or did you just screw up your alt-login? O.o

I'm speaking of myself in the third person.

Ooooooookaaaayyy...

I can't decide if this is Phil being funny or Phil typing into the wrong window

I am tending to think the latter. It doesn't follow his rather trite and formulaic sense of humor. -.-

That is a building box, if u went there, so it was probably working on something... I can ask... why? And who told you that employees are just sales employees?

FYI, i currently have some people that I pay for some photoshop work, somebody for doing some changes to the store itself and 2 that are working on the website. The ones for website don't have any tag, and they never come by the store, as they don't need to...

The others need a tag to be able to rez. And they are Staff, not sales people... Did you read the tag?

Phil's behavior does not cancel out the subject of this thread. Just as whatever other business practices Floyd engages in is not relevant to this subject.

Blanket character assasination. Not a good tactic.

No, it adds to it. I have no doubt that if Phil had approached Floyd without threats and bullying, Floyd would have considered changing his name. The only thing Phil succeeded in doing here is cutting his own throat.



Quoth the queen to the mirror.

What makes you think that?

It's all a matter of speculation. IMO, Floyd's intentions from the beginning are perfectly clear.

ah, the tangled web. Those who scream for absolute ethics....then decide that they apply only in certain cases. Is that ethical, I wonder? Very Interesting.

Maybe he knows more than you think, Milla

From the behavior exhibited by both, and conversations had in private on the matter.



If it's all a matter of speculation, how can you claim Floyd's intentions from the beginning are "perfectly clear"? Wouldn't that be a "speculation", too?

..and who would that be? Hmm?

It doesn't really matter, the impression has been made.

Yes. "IMO" = In my opinion.

If the shoe fits.....

And so? Is it ethical to pick and choose when you apply your ethical standards? By your definition, of course. Wouldn't have it any other way.

Ummm not exactly. The information I posted was largely a response to Anya as to what kind of evidence Linden Lab would likely accept. Just because it probably would not accept other kinds of evidence that one might present in a U.S. trademark infringement claim doesn't automatically mean that there is no recognizable trademark infringement claim under United States law. The U.S. does recognize unregistered trademark infringement as a possible claim. It's just that Linden Lab would probably not be willing to remove content based on one without something like an actual judgment in federal court in favor of the unregistered trademark holder which is a highly improbably scenario in Second Life.