Royalty amount property

This is a simple but brilliant idea. This is the way business should be in SL. I know many developers that would be extremely excited about the chance to build on someone elses design. This may originally sound bad but the benefit to the buyers in SL are unlimited. Everyone would win. As far as abuse - of course there will be abuse. It is all over SL as I write this. It is not going to get any better it might even get worse. The end result is that a person could live very well off of residual income even on the smallest of creations.
I voted yes!


Tana Smirnov
Shawnee NDN Girl

This is the most sensible way to encourage economic activity in an intellectual property market that I think I have ever seen. Forget Digital Rights Management, we could have Direct Royalty Payment!

Either the creator sets a royalty rate, or the item is considered public domain, or simply no-transfer at all. What would determine the expiration of said royalty? A user that has not logged in in X amount of time (70 days perhaps at which point the royalty becomes public domain?

I will NEVER buy a product like that. You sound like the recording industry. Once an item is paid for, it is paid for. You shouldn't be getting paid for the same item over and over whenever it changes hands. If I want to give an item to someone then that is my choice and it is in bad taste to expect that person to have to pay a royalty on a product that is already paid for. Not to mention it will raise the price of everything in SL which i suspect is your goal to begin with. If i could vote no i most definatly would.