It's not necessary 'to file a Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint - in the real world - against offenders' to achieve the removal of infringing material it's only necessary to notify Linden Labs that you contend something is infringing and the removal process proceeds rapidly from there. I think my CNET colleague Daniel Terdiman, who wrote about this in his piece ' Second Life' faces threat to its virtual economy, missed the thrust of Cory's DMCA point. As Linden Labs CTO Cory Ondrejka pointed out in his related blog post, there is one aspect of the real world copyright regime that is literally built for speed: the notice and takedown provisions of the DMCA. Deciding that such technologies are bad per se and must be squelched or hobbled isn't good policy in the real world, and I'm not sure why Second Life, which is in the enviable position of creating in-world copyright policies from scratch, should adopt a different approach. In the real world, economies thrive in part because copying technologies exist - in other words, because those technologies themselves are economic engines. Marty emphasizes the potentially disruptive nature of this copying technology on the still relatively nascent virtual world, but the fact is all copying technologies are and have been disruptive, in part by making it easier to infringe intellectual property rights: cameras, photocopiers, audio and video recording devices, and all manner of digital media fall into this category.

I think that SecondLife is going to have to get into the copyright enforcement business. If copyrightable material is going to be bought and sold on Second Life, then I'm not sure that the real world copyright regime is fast enough to solve problems like CopyBot. O the extent that it wishes to continue to be the host to an exchange, it will find that successful exchanges must offer security not only to buyers but to sellers. (Go read Marty's terrifically headlined post: CopyBot Terrorizing Residents Of SecondLife, Caught On Video.) Marty thinks this is an indication Linden Labs will have to bake more protective measures into its virtual world if it hopes to preserve and foster the economy: Marty Schwimmer tipped me to the controversy swirling about use of a CopyBot tool in Second Life. We review Apple's M1 Ultra-powered Mac StudioĬan digital dollars be as anonymous as cash? Ukrainian developers share stories from the war zone When the boss gets angry at employees' Teams habits

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