Copybot Theft

Blue: "US Copyright law allows for limited "fair use" of copyrighted materials. As such, not all copying is theft, and the distinction has to be made on an individual basis, not in blanket terms."

That may be, but SL is not the US.

You clearly state on the SL advertising that anything we create is ours to do whatever we wish with.

If, and only if, we release an item with full permissions, then we are allowing 'fair use' duplication.

If we relesae something free to the community, that is 'fair use'; reselling someone else's work for your own profit is not fair use.

Taking a copy of someone else's work which is no copy no mod no transfer, by the use of a third party tool, is *not* fair use under any right thinking person's interpretations.

You can't say on one hand that we retain full control over how our created content is used, then state that a clear ToS violating case of theft is not actually really theft.

Lewis

LL subscribes to the DMCA, who's jurisdiction exists in the real world, not just Second Life. As stated in Cory's Blog post: "the implications of copying should not be about Linden Lab’s approach to copyright enforcement. We are not in the copyright enforcement business."

Please do read into the actual meaning of "fair use", which does not explicity require the creator's permission, on the government's website here: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

Should you find that there is unauthorized copying of your work via copybot, please do file an abuse report.