[22:49] TexturesBy Lamplight: I hope you have rights to be using the name of star trek and its ships COPYRIGHTS and TRADEMARKS. I saw the info in inworldz and i despise infringement. And you need to brush up on your secondlife information. Your blog contains lots of errors. Prim sizes, max prim linkage, link sizes and more. And for someone who says they do not like the restrictions of SL you seem to post a hell of a lot on its forumz.
[22:54] TexturesBy Lamplight: And next time you go calling my friends out and dissing em in inworldz i,ll be making the inworldz owners aware your selling trademark violating items and also LL have an email your advertising inworldz on there blog. My g/friends are not there for your enjoyment and to make fun of. Just cos you failed in sl does not mean you can diss people in inworldz. Rant over. Muted
Those are two IM's I received earlier when I popped in to Second Life. Needless to say, I was quite surprised. Now, normally I would just shrug this off but for one thing. He has threatened to accuse me of illegally selling copyrighted content. This is extremely serious, especially when that copyright is something like the Star Trek franchise. And, since he was too cowardly to allow me a fair opportunity to respond, I could only address this by taking it to Second Life's General Discussions forum.
So, here is my response as written in the GD forum:
An Attempt To Respond To Another's Issues
Well, I just received an IM from another resident who has voiced some concerns in a rather angry fashion. I would like an opportunity to respond to them, but they muted me. Since they raise issues that are important to many, I will try to address them here.
One of their issues appears to be my project building ships from Star Trek. Apparently, they believe I am infringing on the Star Trek copyright by doing so. This is a very serious matter. So, let me be clear about what I am doing. I am using the works of other fans who have themselves spent their time drawing blueprints of various ships. I have provided the appropriate link to where I found the drawings, thereby assuring proper accreditation to their work. That link is here: My work is also as a fan. My understanding is that this then falls under the Fair Use doctrine. Furthermore. I have emailed CBS, who hold the copyrights to the Star Trek franchise. They have not yet responded. While I would like to sell my build(s) in the future, I will not do so until I know that I am not infringing on the copyrights. If CBS does not respond within a reasonable time, which is generally 30 days, I will be following up with a written letter and will be posting it via registered mail. If I still recieve no response, or if they do not give me permission, then I will not sell those builds. Whether you believe me or not, time will prove me truthful.
Another issue is that the person believes that I am dead set against SL. While I have lost confidence in LL, that does not mean that I have given up. LL/SL broke new ground. They set the goal posts for the competition. I want LL to continue leading the way. More to the spefic point, no, I do not like the limits on building in SL. Most recently, though, I have been told that changes to those limits are being tested on the Beta grid. If they have already been introduced to the Main grid, I am not aware of that. Perhaps in the future, instead of ranting on me, opening a discussion would be a more positive action. Most especially since such a discussion would be beneficial in the forums as it would make others with out-of-date information aware of those changes.
And finally, don't threaten me. If you think I dissed a friend of yours, tough. Let them speak for themselves. Don't be threatening to go to LL and other grid owners to lie about me selling copyrighted and trademarked items. I am selling only one thing in SL. That is a parcel of Mainland. On other grids I have no shops, no vendors and no inventory. I am not selling a dam thing anywhere. When I talk about any other grids, it has always been when people ask for specific information or are incorrect in what they are saying.
If anyone has a problem with what I post here, say something here. Don't IM me. If you can't say it in public, don't say it. It just makes you look like a coward. You got a problem with my blog? There's a forum there, too.
My next step was to contact one of the founders in InWorldz and to inform them of this threat. I did so as a proactive and preemptive measure to protect myself from TexturesBy Lamplight's false accusations. In that IM to the founders, I openly invited them to visit DrakkonHolde to see for themselves if I was selling any stolen content. What they will find is that I am not. In fact, I don't sell anything. Oh, and don't be thinking that I hid it or took it into my inventory. They own the servers, they can very easily search my inventory for themselves.
Now, while the threat to falsely report me is extremely serious, what is particularly angering is that he is taking stuff frorm InWorldz forums inworld into Second Life. His only complaint about my activities in SL or its forums is what he calls "advertising inworldz". If he had actually read those posts he would have seen that I was either answering specific questions posted by others or correcting misinformation. He never bothered to tell me who I dissed, or in what thread in the IW forums. The rage and mute is pure cowardice. Sending me a private IM rather than saying something in public is just more chicken shit behaviour.
Yes, Tex, I'm calling you out. Who did I disrespect? Post the link. If I did treat them with disrespect, I will apologize, to them and to you, here, on this site and in that thread. You claim my information about build limits is wrong? Why didn't you refer me to the proper SL Wiki entry so I could correct my errors? Oh, but you would rather rage on me instead. How disrespectful. Obviously you did not bother yourself to actually read what is published on this site. Published for any and all to read and comment on. If you had you would have discovered my actions regarding the use of copyrighted material. Hell, if you had done even the most basic checking you would have discovered that I don't have any content for sale, in Second Life, in Inworldz or in any other grid.
So, come one Tex, time to man up, step up to the plate, give it your best shot.
Or crawl under a rock and shut the fuck up.