| I agree. I would like to see animations intended for use in an AO, or for solo dancing, always sold with copy permissions.
However, I think there is a legitimate reason to sell transfer/no-copy animations when used in pose ball sets and furniture. Take Craig's slow dance animations as an example. These are rezzed in a home or a club and left for others to use. They are relatively inexpensive, so buying a couple for a club is pretty affordable considering the usage. If Craig were to sell his animations with copy permissions people could fill a sim with these things all from a single purchase, or rez them at a friend's home or club.
I had a tough choice to make with my own product. For the first year I sold it with transfer/no-copy permissions. I liked these permissions. Transfer perms made gifting easy for my customers. And no-copy perms kept people from rezzing one for a friend, or a landlord from rezzing a dozen - one in each home on a sim. However, so many people were losing their pianos due to server glitches that I eventually had to move to no-transfer/copy permissions. This has worked out very well for me, and made automatic updates possible. I think I probably make up for the lack of multiple sales to a single person with the peace of mind that a copyable item gives my customers. |