Permissions

Hiya Torley (or whoever reads this),

I just read a msg in this forum from someone who got "locked out" of modifying his house because he sold it and then bought it again. It got me thinking...


Wouldn't it be a good idea to slightly change the permissions system so that:

- If creator and owner of an object are the same, the permissions reset themselves to "full" ?
(so that -in the above situation- the house would have become modifiable again when he bought it)

- Any object, even a no-transfer one, can always be transferred to the person who is credited as the creator. This to avoid ppl transferring things (without a copy) to someone (or an alt-account of themselves) and losing the ability to get them back.

Basically, giving the creator all rights to an object, no matter what the object permission rights are.

What do you think ?

Thx,

Will


EDIT: couldn't derivative works get a new creator then ? What amount of changes are needed in order for the creator entry to change ?

It sounds straightforward at first, Will, and I'm glad you brought this up. However, there are some scenarios which make this more complicated than it might initially appear.

Nepenthes Ixchel describes one such example here.

Kelly Linden also elaborated on the ramifications of such a thing.

It creates problems for "derivative works" the like.