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In-world TOS agreements and disclosure

Yumi Murakami
DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat!
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,860
05-09-2006 05:30
I recently purchased an in-world item which, on being initialised, presented me with a click-to-accept terms of service/license agreement. I'd be grateful to know:

a) in the event of me breaching, or being accused of a breach, of this license agreement, would LL disclose my 1st life information to the licensor to enable them to begin legal proceedings?

b) in the event of me having a legal dispute with the company producing the product (which I believe to be a real-world company), would LL disclose my 1st life information to the company to enable them to verify that my avatar had clicked through the license and thus accepted a disclaimer?

c) Would answers to the above apply to any such in-world TOS existing in SL (from a non-LL party) or only to those presented by particular people or specifying/not specifying certain terms?
Philip Linden
Founder, Linden Lab
Join date: 18 Nov 2002
Posts: 428
05-09-2006 08:59
Hi Yumi,

This is a great question. Under the terms of our privacy policy, we will endeavor never to disclose any sort of private information about your account to a third party except under extreme circumstances, such as complying with legal process. You can read more about this at http://secondlife.com/corporate/privacy.php.

It seems likely that users of Second Life will create their own mechanisms for establishing appropriate forms of identity (beyond your avatar name) for specific cases such as the product you are describing. Our direction as a company is to presume that the details of how such agreements might work are better worked out by the creators of content rather than LL.
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Philip Linden
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