It’s that time of year again, as the Second Life anniversary season is upon us. Every year, around this time, the Lab does something daft that raises a stink among Second Life users. It’s regrettable, but you can practically set your calendar by it.

Usually, it has something to do with nipples. This time, it’s copyright.

Miso Susanowa was once again called on to make a logo for Linden Lab, despite having been burned by the process on at least one prior occasion. This time it was for the Second Life anniversary.

She pitched an idea, sought feedback, created a mock-up in-world, and then heard nothing back.

Then the Lab went ahead and simply reworked its own design from the design that Susanowa had pitched.

Bad form, indeed.

Of course – any other agreements notwithstanding – section 7.2 of the Second Life Terms of Service allows the Lab to copy and/or rework any in-world content “for the purposes of providing and promoting the Service.”

But that doesn’t make it right, just legal. Actually, this is what was originally called ‘piracy’ in the copyright sense.

I look forward to the day when the Lab doesn’t pull some sort of crass and offensive stunt in the Second Life anniversary season, but I’m not going to hold my breath.

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Tags: Copyright, Fail, Linden Lab / Linden Research Inc, Miso Susanowa, Nipples, Second Life, Second Life Anniversary, Virtual Environments and Virtual Worlds