On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:44:47 +1000, Tateru Nino <tateru.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Forwarding your questions through the PR channels, Lance. Although, > from the documentation provided by the Lab so far, the answer to > question one is 'no'. a few email messages ago, Kelly replied to Ann Otoole:
"No new user can create ann.otoole OR annotoole as a username, that name is taken by you" Isn't this the point of question one? Questions 2-3 are not new. Not new are stories of users abusing account names by exploiting similarity between 'l' and "I" - or some other letters. The font choice is to blame in such a case, and this has been reported to PJIRA. Nothing new. Question 4 seems even naive if I get it right - Legal protections? Is this that's being asked? I'm not aware of other online service providers who put procedures in place to protect their users from fraudulent use. Can we name some? Thanks. If you're looking for legal protection try registering your avatar name as a trademark, as other SL users did. > On 20/08/2010 4:38 PM, Lance Corrimal wrote: >> Is it just me or did the lindens stop replying to this topic? It is just you: https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/opensource-dev/2010-August/002649.html (or maybe I'm missing some rule about how fast Lindens must reply) Opensource Obscure >> ok, lets try this again. >> >> Here are some distict questions, and I would like to see distinct >> "yes" or "no" answers from linden labs employees, and I would like it >> a lot if, in case no one of the lindens on the list can answer my >> questions in such a disticnt manner, the questions be forwarded to >> someone who can. >> >> >> 1. Will there be procedures in place to prevent someone else to use my >> true avatar name as their display name? >> >> 2. Will there be procedures in place to prevent someone from using a >> display name that might be different from my true avatar name but for >> all visual verification looks like it, given how there are unicode >> characters that have a different code but look like regular >> characters? >> >> 3. Will there be procedures in place to prevent the case where someone >> uses a copyrighted name of a fictional character (like, for example, >> "Mickey Mouse" or "Clark Kent") as their display name? >> >> 4. If the answer to any of the above is not a clear and loud yes: Will >> there be procedures in place to protect the original holder of any >> true avatar name from legal damages after someone used their name as >> their display name for fraudulent uses? >> >> bye, >> LC >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
