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Trademarks are poor misunderstood things.
Way back when, trademarks were called hallmarks, makers’ marks, earmarks and brands.
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    Intellectual property is a funny thing. That’s funny-strange, not funny-ha-ha – although I imagine that depends a little on your perspective. You see intellectual property has an unfortunate name, because it isn’t actually property in the conventional sense and doesn’t conform to the same rules that govern other kinds of tangible or intangible property. Public libraries – you know, if the library hadn’t already been developed (about 4,000 years ago, give or take), and you were proposing a public library system for books right now, you know what would happen? As distribution of music (and movies and television shows including music) go increasingly digital and becoming more and more widespread, composers and songwriters are getting less money, not more. Is this because of wholesale piracy? No. It’s actually far more interesting than that. I recently wrote two pieces on Eros LLC, Shannon Grei vs Linden Research Inc (AKA Linden Lab). One for Massively, and one for The Metaverse Journal. Now, here’s the question. Based on what you’ve read so far (including coverage by others), how do you think it will work out? How do you become the richest person in the world in virtually no time at all? Find a way to stop unauthorized copying of content.
If you’re a content-creator who cares about creator-rights, you probably shouldn’t be using a bootleg copy of Photoshop (for example) to make your stuff. You can do better. Here’s a short roundup of some great free tools that get the job done, do it well, won’t stress out your PC, and won’t blow your budget … on account of, you know, being free. “!quit” These ‘copyright protection’ devices are scattered all over Second Life. People are still actually buying them. At best this is like burying an iron knife under your threshold to keep witches away and then telling everyone who passes about it. I’m looking forward to getting responses from the Lab’s PR people about – well, all sorts of things – but one in particular that I’m waiting on is more information about component licensing of the Second Life viewer. The problem is that I’ve been planning a roundup and comparison of third-party viewers for a while (a frequently requested feature), but as near as I can tell, more than half of them constitute license/copyright infringement, some of it quite egregious. 
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