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Now, I understand your argument about the CC license, but show me something better for what I’m doing? Maybe the CC should be expanded, as I mention in the post, I would like to see a CC like model, things spelled out rather than copy, mod, trans. There are still many questions left in the air about what to do next with those things. But I digress.

I think, Prokofy, you’re not getting my theory about The Avaverse. It’s not that about being a self-sustaining income generator instead, this is about providing starting points for making content. I’ve laid out my theory about the project, and it has nothing to do with quitting my day job. It’s more about access to content.

Now I’m not the first person to do this, I won’t be the last. I think you are not grasping the bigger picture of this project. This is more about access than anything else.

If anything that you’re correct about it’s the comment of using my “high-profile perch” to push something; but it’s not to generate more income or get more attention for gigs or more tips. I really wish it were. I would be much richer right now. Instead I’m using my “high-profile perch” to see if I can help in an area that I feel is lacking something.

Prokofy, thank you for your feedback, but maybe you should wait just a wee bit longer to see the full evolution of this project. Again, if all of my theories are right, you may even find yourself wanting to use The Avaverse as a way to help your business in Second Life.

1. If you have a day-job to support your Second Life hobby, great! Don’t quit that day job, Nexeus! Therefore, *do not impose a model you do not accept in real life on others and undermine others who DO make a RL living from SL with freebies. Put your theories where your mouth is, please.

2. Creative Commons is a shill, designed to make people wean themselves from wishing to get paid for their work, and undermining considerable efforts to get people to stop copying for work that people want to be paid for.

All CC does is provide community pressure to CREDIT people for their work and use it for non-profit purposes but it does not encourage PAYMENT of them, and that’s morally wrong. It undermines intellectual property in this fashion.

3. You aren’t putting your theories to test by keeping a day job, making some content you hope to sell in SL, and undermining your competitors by providing freebies — you are merely using your high-profile perch in the FIC 2.5 as head of the SLCC to sell more stuff, get more tips, get more DJ jobs or whatever else you do, and undermine others — especially newbies entering the market.

This isn’t a model for a world; it’s a model for a Ren Faire.

If you’re unaware, content creation isn’t necessarily the main source of my Second Life income. I don’t plan to switch entirely onto open source – there are some things that I’ve worked on and will be working on that are not suited for this sort of project.

Secondly, although I have not talked much about the RL work that I do, it does not mean that work I’ve been doing for the past 7 years does not coexist with what I’m doing here?

As for undermining the efforts of others to make a living in SL, I’m not sure how this is doing that? If anything I’m enhancing it by giving people content to use for their own content. For instance, the poses I’ve released CAN be used for a studio booth. I’m not going to go after them at all (hence the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License).
As you said, let’s put my theories to test. Let’s see if this idea works. If I’m wrong, hey, at least I tried doing something that would be beneficial.

If you have a RL job which enables you to use SL as a hobby, why are you releasing your creations you used to get paid for for free now, such as to undermine the effort of others to make a living in SL?

Nexeus, let’s put your theories to the test, shall we?

Are you willing to quit your RL job and depend completely on Creative Commons and open source to make a living?

If so, how is the start-up company that might pay you to do this going to keep making money?

If you aren’t willing to do that, and not willing to turn over all your content in SL for free, then why ask others to do so?