'Second Life' Sexual Genitalia Spawns Lawsuit

Listen people... the fact is ... online relationships and other virtual experience can very rapdidly become more emotionally real than those in real life. And when time involved erodes into jobs and real life relationships...its a bad thing. I am cancelling my SL membership, not because its uninteresting... but because its too interesting. Maybe others can manage it... but as a red-blooded male who chooses to pursue Christian values... I don't find it conducive to living out my faith... or honoring my real life relationships. Its' not... just a game. - Rex

There are few real rules in SL. Hearts get broken and values get squashed. Take a word from the now wiser: invest your all in RL and

Such a short attention span, I doubt that the last postest to this even read the article. There is a lawsuit over the copyright of Virtual property. If this person created it, then no one else can profit from it without his permission. that is LAW. It is the same as if you Drew a comic and posted it online, some one sees that comic, downloads the pic, and then turns around and starts selling it to other people and making a profit of it. That is Stealing and violating the original persons copyright IF the person feels so inclined to follow up with a lawsuit. Some things people simply dont care about, but every time you take a picture and repost it, or use it as an avatar on a Message board, you run the risk that some one who made that picture, will get upset and excersie their right

What the hell is this now?

Would this not be classified under the "Intellectual Properties " laws??

It's about people not having lives playing second life (which is a bs comment) or that it's a "game". The problem is that a person invented a product, that many people have bought and will buy. He makes large sums of Lindens which I'm sure he's traded in for American dollars. Some jerkoff comes along, steals your product info, slaps a new name on it and sells it like they came up with the design is crazy. Yeah I'd sue him. If he stole something of mine and caused me to lose business, yes I'd sue. It's not like it was a similar product, it's the exact item renamed.

I do have some fear about this. What I've seen called a SexGen bed uses freely available public pose scripts and poses. The creator of the Sex Gen bed is saying the copy cat stole his code.
So it seems either the copy cat used free code instead of the original scripts or the SexGen creator used free code to start with.

This is the first lawsute but not the first time someone accused someone else of stealing.
A diffrent example would be one guy hired a builder to make a fantastic replica of a populare World War II gun and used it for a finished working weapon that owes it's popularity to the code.
Others have made replicas of exactly the same weapon.
So this guy just presumes every replica is a prim copy of his. He just can't believe this weapon can be reproduced by so many diffrent builders.

Same issue I think. It's not even that hard to make a sex bed. They have been around for a long time. Mostly using the same free scripts.

Maybe there is an issue with the name "SexGen" seeing how it is unique but I seriously doupt any code theft happend here.

Hasn't Microsoft made a booming business out of taking an idea that wasn't theirs and making it their own? Whats the difference?

If he can prove in court it's his creation and nobody else's, he should sue. Just because it's a game or a virtual world doesn't make it less of a crime. It's intellectual property. As the article says, the case is rooted in basic copyright infringement law. However, if he can't legally show it to be his exclusive creation, then he's trying to cash in/take credit where it isn't due.