blatant copyright infrightment list

affects me directly (hope it doesn't go thru), but thought this might also be interesting for some of you since it's relevant to this topic:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050621/bs_nm/manufacturing_maytag_dc

"It's the intangible assets they're buying."

You have now called two of us morons for saying there is a legitimate, though remote, chance of lawyers coming. This is uncalled for. Personal attacks are not the way to put forward your point.

they use the logo's because they are FANS, out of respect.

whether they're doing it purely as fans of the product or to sell product isn't the only issue afaic. there is the issue that these branded items are competing with SL original content and are as a result - intended or otherwise and to some unknown degree - hurting the growth of homegrown product. so while i won't lose sleep over the corporate losses, i am saddened at the impact on the little guys.

So now only those with "skill" to be "creative" can make items?

no

I thought that said "Red Butt" at first.

Which would be appropriate, given the flavor of Red Bull...

I received this message from a Linden when I logged in after weeks of not being on..."XXXXXX Linden: (Saved Wed Jun 22 16:24:07 2005) Michael, trademark infringement is not allowed ..."

Someone please tell me why my penguin avatar that was completely original (not copied) and made by myself and two other avatars were removed from my shop because of infringement? I didn't receive any email, warning, or any other type of message telling me to fix whatever the problem was that caused the removal of my avatars from my shop. They were just removed without noticed and without explaination. Just a vague message and his abusement of power by removing my items was the only notice.

If a penguin is trademark infringement, according to the Linden that removed it and two others, it is infringement, then everything else in SL is as well and should be removed.

The penguin bears a slight resemblance to "Tux," the Linux Mascot. But I am unclear as to whether it is TM'd or not. If so, a lot of folks in SL are going to lose items.

That's completely absurd. It's a penguin. If it has a vague resemblance to "Tux", it's because penguins generally look like penguins. I hope penguins aren't banned from SL, because I have several, and I'd like to keep them.

I received this message from a Linden when I logged in after weeks of not being on..."XXXXXX Linden: (Saved Wed Jun 22 16:24:07 2005) Michael, trademark infringement is not allowed ..."

Someone please tell me why my penguin avatar that was completely original (not copied) and made by myself and two other avatars were removed from my shop because of infringement? I didn't receive any email, warning, or any other type of message telling me to fix whatever the problem was that caused the removal of my avatars from my shop. They were just removed without noticed and without explaination. Just a vague message and his abusement of power by removing my items was the only notice.

If a penguin is trademark infringement, according to the Linden that removed it and two others, it is infringement, then everything else in SL is as well and should be removed.

Trademark infringement is a violation of the Terms of Service, and when we see an infringement we are obligated to remove it. Unfortunately, your avatars were in a vendor which also had the penguin in it. We couldn't just remove the avs, but had to remove the whole thing. If you'd like to replace your vendor with the penguin in it, and other non-infringing content, please feel free to do so.

For reference, the Terms of Service clause dealing with trademarks and copyright infringement (paragraph 5.1(i) can be found here.

Each avatar is in there own vendor; individual prims that could be bought and folder would be placed in the customer's inventory. The penguin was in a seperate prim all alone, but Michael Linden didn't care to check and just wiped them all out. God job on hiring a worker who only does a half-ass, lazy job and doesn't bother checking out the details. Make sure you give him a pay raise for his attention to detail. Oh wait, he is lazy and doesn't care about details; nevermind.

"5.1(i): take any action or upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit Content that infringes or violates any third party rights;" Ya, this makes a lot of sense to me.

Not one Linden has told me exactly what I was infringing on that result in the removal of my only three avataras that were in SEPERATE prims. You just give the terms and service and the 5.1(i), speil and no explaination of what exactly of my items is the cause.

And you don't even bother to say how Michael Linden gave such a vague IM and no explaination either.

Also, when I first made the Batman avatar, I went to the newbie zone to test it out and I had comments from LINDENs themselves who were there helping out the newly joined SL members, saying I did a great job making the Batman avatar. Do you all flip-flop whenever you all feel like it? I should have been told right off that I couldn't do that and it would have been fine instead of 9+ months later and then decide to say something. But this makes me realize that most of the Lindens out there don't even read the Terms and Services either. If they did read the TOS, they would have known from the start that I made something wrong and would have informed me.

SL = second life; thus a copy of the real one in a virtual world. Everything in SL is basically 90% copied from RL; avatars, clothes, vehicles, food, etc; almost everything. So all Lindens should start removing 90% of the content on the game, because where do you think it comes from?

I liked making comic book type avatars and now I can't even do that now. Thanks a lot for making SL sour and not fun anymore for me.