Music--first of all, yes, we should have let you know about a mention on your gallery when we made blog post. That is basic courtesy and we apologize for not dropping you an IM. I also totally agree that people should try to give each a break and reach out to discuss things. You should also be aware that we deal with a lot of blatant theft of our materials (and a lot of non-sensical stories from people).

You raise a lot of points in your comment. I think you got a strong response inworld and above because 1) area at Garden was marked with a lot of notices about how to use artwork there 2) you were trying to sell images of art work without artist permission.

You are confusing a lot of points about copyright and what people can do with artwork in the virtual worlds. Just by buying a copy of something that does not give you the rights to the work. In RL if you buy a book you can only read it. If you buy a DVD you can only watch it (and by the way not sell tickets to watching it). If you buy a car you don't have any rights to that brand or the designs etc. So it is the same in SL. You are in fact totally off by saying that "RL laws do not apply in SL." Laws do apply and we work to maintain the sense of them in this new frontier.

You are also not exactly right in your comments that Lindens own SL. Linden Labs owns all of their technology--a lot is made by other parties. They do not own the servers or the internet obviously either. In terms of TOS, the creators actually own everything that they have made. The TOS allow for people to see this within the context of the SL visiting experience. This is a strong rule about ownership and digital right management (DRM) that SL goes to major effort to protect. The TOS also do not allow for ripping or taking images out of SL under the TOS rules. Copyright is still maintained--in fact it is the core of SL.

So what does this mean? Well, I think you got the right message about sharing attribution. I would say that we also got this message and are redoubling our efforts to provide this very reasonable, fair and ethical practice. You can post stuff on Flickr and inworld with proper attribution as long as you don't sell it. Take a look at our policy on this here. http://rezzable.com/about-rezzable/legalese-licensing.

cu on the grid...

p.s. Vint works for Rezzable and is managing the Garden sims along with Miki.