Comments on: Second Life (No Registration Mark) and Trademarks: Your Views Please

By: tommy

tommy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:08:50 +0000

I live in the Netharlands and i can’t fill in a mobile provider, it is not available, so i can’t play the game…

By: ^Lestat

^Lestat — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:44:31 +0000

Hope it’s cost effective for SL. I’ve since moved on.

I canceled my paid account last year, and have my free avatar sitting idle. Though it can’t be proven, I believe Linden Labs (Couldn’t find my ‘circle R’ key) is fixing the L$ market. There is no way it is that stable. I no longer trust them and have since moved on to other MMORPG’s. Personally - I no longer see a point to SL. Most of the places I’ve visited are ghost towns and I have no interest in paying real world $ in SL to buy clothing for my avatar.

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By: Ari Blackthorne

Ari Blackthorne — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:33:53 +0000

I concur exactly with your sentiments.
I also believe it is simply the shoring-up of their ‘corporate-ness’ in preparation for becoming bigger than they are and stepping into the ‘real world’. with this.

I also believe they are simply ‘recording’ it for recording purposes. I don’t believe they really expect you or I or anyone else who’s ever written about them to go back and change all those references. And even if they did, it’s a ridiculous assumption that is would be required by law or any other reason, as those references were made before the requirement was published.

Retroactive compliance is not a possibility.

I believe it is a loud bark with no bite. Unless you are CNN or ABC or C|NET or one of the other ‘big’ news organizations who constantly write about them.

I salute Linden Lab for doing this and my comment to them is ‘what the hell were you thinking that it took you so damned long?”

As for my own blog - the required mark in the header and footer. In the actual copy I write - hell no. It won’t happen.

Besides, if you (meaning everyone) actually read the requirements - you are told to put the marks on first use only.

The really funny one to me in addition to variations on the name “Linden” (which cracks me up completely - just lowercase-it - then it’s not a proper name and legal the way I see it,) is any claim to the initials “SL”.

From me to them: Pffft - it’ll never happen.

By: Nobody Fugazi

Nobody Fugazi — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:17:53 +0000

Yeah, well, Hammy missed my links. He’s pretty good at that. That’s ok. I don’t read him anyway.

As a publisher (basically saying if LL has a problem, they have a method of recourse):
http://www.your2ndplace.com/node/1041

As someone standing with Gwyn
http://www.your2ndplace.com/node/1044

Overall, consensus on Y2P is pretty much the same - but we’re waiting on Linden Lab to clarify the situation.