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Arminasx Saiman
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Join date: 4 Dec 2006
Posts: 28
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06-26-2007 19:14
I make and sell particle effects. I normally set the wearable effects to Transfer only, and those items designed for permanent installation (like say, smoke), I set to Transfer and Modify so that the new owner can customize the script-holding object to match the installation site. If they need more copies, I can sell them as many as they need. My prices are fairly low to start with, which justifies the restricted permissions - at least to my mind.
The question is, I am getting requests from buyers who want to embed my effects into their products. This requires me to sell them a Modify, Copy & Transfer version of the effect. While in principle I don't have a problem doing this, I am never sure what I should charge for a product with "better" permissions. I've been thinking that it could be a multiple of the "base" no-copy/modify price, since the buyers are intending on selling multiple copies of them.
Are there any rules-of-thumb or words-of-wisdom for this situation?
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Escort DeFarge
Together
Join date: 18 Nov 2004
Posts: 681
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06-26-2007 22:52
Give copy/transfer only and put a next owner perm check in to ensure that they don't inadvertantly sell the script on copy/trans.
If you give mod (all rights) for your work charge a full commercial real-life development rate for the hours you spent and for the expertise you brought to it, since you won't ever be able to profit from that script ever again.
Just my 2 cents...
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Teddy Qinan
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Join date: 10 Mar 2007
Posts: 34
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06-26-2007 23:11
If you sell a script with mod permissions can't the next user just cut and paste the contents into a new script anyway?
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Milambus Oh
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Join date: 6 Apr 2007
Posts: 224
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06-27-2007 06:29
Yes, they can.
But when he says Mod permissions in the first post, he means Mod permissions to the object containing the script which allows the buyer to customer its appearance to fit the decor of the location it is being used in.
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Qie Niangao
Coin-operated
Join date: 24 May 2006
Posts: 7,138
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06-27-2007 12:10
Perhaps only tangentially related, but a reminder: Try never to sell or give away a Script asset, per se, with mod perms. Distribute code cut-and-pasted into notecards or whatever, but if you distribute it in a mod-able Script, any griefer can make you appear to be author of their, uh, "grief." I imagine that asset storage has some history such that confusion will be only temporary should an AR get filed, but still: most residents having captured a naughty script will suppose that the Creator of that script is responsible for its mischief, and unpleasantness may ensue.
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