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Dnate Mars · 04-04-2008, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Archer Braun

I will fully admit to feeling a bit trollish as of late, but I can't say I find any of this very surprising.
LL is taking steps to protect its trademark and IP rights for the strategic health of its business, and everyone's up in arms.
For a number of reasons I just have to shake my head. You pin your star to someone else's product, refer to it by name, begin making an income, and then get upset with the creator of that product decides to start flexing its own IP muscles?
This may have been inevitable. And it may actually not turn out to be as bad as some people think. But it is the result of inviting RL legal scrutiny into SL.
You'll never be able to stuff that genie back inside the bottle. Not ever.
And as far as this being cruel? A 90 day minimum is hellagenerous...especially considering they could have gone the true bastard route and started sending out C&D letters, instead.

You are completely missing the point. They did allow, and encouraged, us to create fansites using these terms. Let me quote the policy again,

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USE OF SECOND LIFE MARKS

While you are in full compliance with the usage guidelines described here, you may use the “Second Life” name on your website, as well as the related logos and graphics available at Toolkit, solely in the form described there. Additionally, you may use screenshots from Second Life to the extent that Linden Lab has the right to authorize use of the content within such screenshot, including screenshots of Linden in-world objects and Linden avatars, subject to these usage guidelines.

They told us to do this. This is what they wanted. Now all of a sudden for whatever reasons, they are going to tell us differently. They are the ones that let the genie out of the bottle by letting us use it for so long. It is not like they didn't know, they have used the outside sites.