Stroker Serpentine and those involved in the class action against Linden Lab over content protection have reached an out-of-court settlement with the makers of Second Life.
During a recording of Metaverse TV’s Grumpy Old Avatars, Stroker stated:
“We settled the lawsuit with Linden Lab. We settled amicably, and reasonably, and we’re anticipating a concerted effort on Linden’s behalf going forward towards content protection and the rights of content creators and at least being aware of the fact that there is a lot of content theft going on out there.”
Precisely what this means for SL as a whole is unclear. That settlement has been reached would indicate that both sides realised they had slim chances for an outright “win”. That action of some description is now anticipated on the part of Linden Lab is clear. Quite what that action will be remains to be seen. One wonders if the shelved Content Management Roadmap may get a dusting-down; if it does, then it needs to be given a long, hard look. The first cut wasn’t that impressive.
The legal department at Battery Street seems to have its hands full right now…
Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld 
Yes, it would be interesting to see exactly what Linden Lab are commiting to here, I suspect they may have a registration system for sellers on the horizon for their marketplace, inworld that’s not going to fly.
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My money is still on a revamp of the “Content Seller Program” of the Content Management Roadmap and a degree of ring-fencing – improved metadata on objects?
The Content Management Roadmap was flawed in many areas – but it’ll be (I suspect) welcomed by the large-turnover content creators, as parts of it make for almost favoured nations status for them.
And, at the end of the day, it’s kind-of ready to go. It offers the path of least overhead / work for LL and can be enshrined relatively rapidly as a result. As such, the cynic in me expect it to pop-up, with the aforementioned bells and whistles.
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