DarrenBarefoot.com

[...] 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 [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] 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!. [...]

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!

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[...] 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.” [...]

[...] head over to iphatigue. Let’s hope Apple will be as good about it as the Sl was about Get a First [...]

[...] legitimate comments, but posted in a systematic way to popular pages on the site. Here are some [...]

[...] 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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[...] decided to post about it. I was honestly not going to bother till I got a bigger chuckle on seeing Linden Lab’s response. To quote Darren Barefoot (for it was his idea): Yesterday I launched this one-page Second Life [...]

[...] guy who runs Get a First Life got a proceed and permitted letter from Linden [...]

[...] established basic legal and regulatory policy and strategies, with humor [...]