I Got a Proceed and Permitted Letter From Linden Labs
Yesterday I launched this one-page Second Life satire site. Today I awoke from my nap to a letter (via the comments on the announcement) from Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life. ‘Ah, well’, I thought, ‘here come the lawyers’.
But no. To their enormous credit, they sent me what I can only describe as a ‘proceed and permitted’ (instead of ‘cease and desist’) letter. Here’s an excerpt:
We do not believe that reasonable people would argue as to whether the website located at http://www.getafirstlife.com/ constitutes parody – it clearly is. Linden Lab is well known among its customers and in the general business community as a company with enlightened and well-informed views regarding intellectual property rights, including the fair use doctrine, open source licensing, and other principles that support creativity and self-expression. We know parody when we see it.
Hilarious.
I should also take a moment to recognize Laughing Squid for keeping the site up. It helps that it’s the weekend, but it’s been Dugg, Boing Boinged and TechCrunched in the past 24 hours and, as far as I know, has remained up the whole time. My old server would have skittered off into the corner at ‘Du’.
January 21st, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Lol… thank you for putting in a picture what I think about SL! :)
“Penguins, spoons and you — what’s life like among the the flightless?” lol…
and the best…
“Fornicate using your actual genitals”
:D
January 21st, 2007 at 8:14 pm
[…] UPDATE: Check out Linden Labs’ (the creators of Second Life) great comment on Darren’s blog post. Instead of sending him a cease-and-desist letter, which is often common in these situations, they actually granted him license to use the modified version of their logo. tags: parody (T) , Second Life (T) , Linden Labs (T) , Darren Barefoot (T) , satire (T) submit to StumbleUpon Comments RSS feed | Trackback URL […]
January 22nd, 2007 at 1:19 am
[…] C’est la parodie de Second Life, créée par Darren, vue chez Loïc, qui ne l’a pas postée avec moins d’arrières-pensées que moi, et je l’assume. Parce que ça, c’est un message politique ! […]
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:03 am
[…] I debated posting a link to this page on the SLED (Second Life Educators) Listserv, then decided not to. My main reason to not post was because this parody was also promoting a Cafe Press T-Shirt with the First Life logo. The SLED group is sometimes a little touchy on anything commercial being posted to the listserv. However, a few days after this site came up, the blogger who created it got a Proceed and Permitted letter from Linden Lab. It’s nice to see that Linden Lab can appreciate a good parody with a parody of a legal document. Too funny. […]
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:11 pm
cracking me up all day Darren. Great stuff.
January 23rd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
[…] Exhibit B: Linden Legal Responds! We do not believe that reasonable people would argue as to whether the website located at http://www.getafirstlife.com/ constitutes parody – it clearly is. Linden Lab is well known among its customers and in the general business community as a company with enlightened and well-informed views regarding intellectual property rights, including the fair use doctrine, open source licensing, and other principles that support creativity and self-expression. We know parody when we see it. […]
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
[…] In this post, he says he got a ‘proceed and permitted’ (instead of ‘cease and desist’) letter from Linden Labs. Great stuff! […]
January 23rd, 2007 at 11:49 pm
[…] 1. Je me suis fait "shifter" par Michael Lenczner sur la publication de ce site internet. En réalité, c’est un mockup, mais l’idée reste très intéressante. Une chose que Michael ne parle pas et que je crois important: Liden Labs à envoyé une "Proceed and Permit letter", genre de "Cease and desist", à Daren Barefoot qui la commente ici. Ca, c’est exactement ce que je m’attends de la part d’une vrai compagnie de la "nouvelle économie". Kudos guys… vraiment!. […]
January 24th, 2007 at 6:00 am
I found out that “Second Life” Was First a Belgian Band” on http://gramos.wordpress.com. Cool :)
January 24th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Sweet! You’ve been Associated Press’d!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_hi_te/second_life_parody
Not as fun (or as easy to say) as Slash Dotting, but cool nonetheless!
January 31st, 2007 at 6:35 am
It’s also Slashdotted. Great spoof!
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:35 am
[…] Speaking of cease and desist letters, SWT has an interesting story about a breast milk advocate getting some unwanted legal attention from the National Pork Board: The Lactivist is a blog about breastfeeding and human milk banking. It’s mostly a gathering place for breastfeeding moms to come and share their thoughts and experiences and to keep up to date on the latest issues in the fight for the rights of a child to eat in public. To help fund the site (and to raise money for the non-profit milk banks) I have a CafePress store that sells t-shirts with funny pro-breastfeeding slogans. Things like “Milk on Tap” and “That’s my baby’s lunch you’re staring at.” […]
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July 3rd, 2007 at 9:03 am
[…] head over to iphatigue. Let’s hope Apple will be as good about it as the Sl was about Get a First […]
September 21st, 2007 at 12:06 am
Sweet! You’ve been Associated Press’d!
September 21st, 2007 at 12:48 am
[…] legitimate comments, but posted in a systematic way to popular pages on the site. Here are some […]
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:48 am
[…] It is a pity, considering that I’m the subject of the article and quoted within it, that they couldn’t cut me some slack. After all, it’s not like Capulet.com gets a lot of traffic, or that I was misrepresenting the content as anything other than what it was. It just strikes me as desperately pedantic, and downright unfriendly to their sources and readers. It’s also a little ironic, given Linden Labs’s enlightened response to the satire. […]
October 5th, 2007 at 8:01 am
[…] questionable assumptions, or odd comparisons, but we at Linden Lab do our best to take all of it in good humor. We live in a fast-paced world of constant information and change, and we know that even the […]
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