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Originally Posted by Briana Dawson  Oh wow, so Minnu skins are stolen from Renderocity. This has been happening since at least 2004 where several early skinners got their skin starts, some commercial some just for their private collection.
I am rather surprised to see that they are going after Minnu in a medium that they have no financial interest in (yet). This is going have a ripple effect throughout the community as more and more Renderocity retailers become hip to SL and they start seeing their works: skins, clothes, eyes, textures, appearing in SL being resold as original works and not in accordance to the licensing agreement they were purchased under.
Minni has been raking in the cash hand over fist off this other womans work is the bottom line, even though she has no Second Life presence and now it is time to pay for the free ride.
A lot of designers/texture sellers are going to  |
Actually, a number of the more visible Renderosity artists have been aware of Second Life for a long time - some have even migrated their work to
SL. I'm surprised that an artist as prolific and well known as Danae is just now hip to the possibility of theft in Second Life.
This whole thing kind of shocks me as I own a Minnu skin and considered their line to be one of the best in
SL. But unless someone takes the time to do a detailed compare of things like lips, nails, belly buttons and so forth, it's going to be hard for any external artist to know where to look to find rip-offs. You'd have to be intimately familiar with the Renderosity work, first, and then spot something in one of thousands of
SL products that rang a bell.