It was brought to our attention the p_OO_f Gallery has placed for sale some photos of the Rezzable Garden of NPIRL Delights. This has upset the artists which work was on sale: they were never asked for permission for the sales of their works. Neither were they given proper attribution for the time and effort they put into the builds. Rather, the seller claimed the items on sale as 'copyrighted to me'.
All works at the Rezzable Garden of NPIRL Delights are put up under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license unless the respective artist specifies a different license. This license information is made clear on the Garden website as well as at the official entrace to the Garden of NPIRL Delights. More information on the license at the Garden.
This license was violated in two ways:
- Not given proper attribution to the artists and claiming ownership of the copyright.
- Selling the works without prior consent of the artists in question.
Rezzable employees on behalf of the artists spoke to the seller and explained that all the copyright of all contents in SL belong to the person who created the original works, according to the DMCA act, Linden Lab's ToS and - specific for the Rezzable Garden of NPIRL Delights - our Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License.
The seller has taken down all the photographs in-world and/or set them to 'no sale' with attribution and states no sales of the photographs have been made. She also chose to take down the photographs on Flickr, in stead of adding the correct attribution information to them.
