AldoManutio raises an interesting point on what is the artist's rights after sharing a work under a CC licence.

So the CC licence is about what other people can do as approved by the artist. We prefer a CC that is pretty open as long as the person using the work gives attribution and does not use it for commercial purposes without our approval, which in most cases we would give at no charge.

But, this is only for photographing stuff and making machinimas. We of course would not allow someone to rip a texture and then give that away for free all over the grid. So our licence grant is purely a limited rights licence for certain types of uses.

My understanding is though, that we still retain all our rights to commercial our works as we see fit. This is not an open source type licence where once the work is out is must stay open source. However, as Aldo is so insistant on this point I will also check around and make sure I am correct on this key point. Stay tuned!

I would also add that in most cases, people are still genuinely confused on what they can do with what they can capture within the SL TOS onto their computer--so again photos and machinima. So I think we can all be a lot more patient and help us all to do the right thing, without hammering each other (as fun as it might often be). **make note about fixing attribution on Bosch painting and check other images on website