What Second Life means to me

by Tateru Nino Aug 25th 2008 at 11:00AM

Filed under: Culture, Events, real-world, News items, Second Life, Machinima, Virtual worlds

Linden Lab is putting together (but has not yet formally announced) a Second Life promotional video to be shown at this year's Second Life Community Convention (SLCC08) in Tampa Florida, 5-7 September. Linden Lab is looking for up to ten images, and up to 250 words on the topic, with permission for use assigned to Linden Lab and SLCC.

Linden Lab hasn't announced this yet, but we've been watching the development of the announcement on the Second Life wiki for the last couple of days now. We're guessing that the actual proper announcement still has to be crawled over by the PR people with microscopes before they dare show it on the official blog -- but we've got the real meat of it here.

Are you a part of the most widely-known collaborative virtual environment or keeping a close eye on it? Massively's Second Life coverage keeps you in the loop.

Email your submissions to Kathleen Craig (Katt Linden: Katt@lindenlab.com) with the subject "(yourname) What Second Life Means to Me," or email your text and link to your images on Flickr, but please, to qualify for consideration, remember to include the requested Flickr tags and permissions in Flickr and your statement that the work is yours and you grant permission for it to be used for this purpose, which should satisfy all the lawyers in the room, at least. Well, that and that the work has to be original.

Images may alternatively be uploaded to Flickr, and tagged "SecondLife" and "SLCC08_Video" Please remember that for your images to be considered they must also be tagged in Flickr with the Creative Commons permission to "Allow commercial uses of your work" and to "Allow modifications of your work."

Obviously, if enough entries are submitted, not every submission would make the final cut.

Second Life is many things to many people. Those of you who spend your time in Second Life tell us ... what does Second Life mean to you?

Tags: culture, kathleen-craig, katt-linden, linden-lab, machinima, second-life, slcc08, virtual-worlds

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Marianne McCann said on 11:17AM 8-25-2008

I so need to submit to this. I so know it'll never, ever be accepted, though.

lem.skall said on 12:58PM 8-25-2008

Is LL paying for the material they are going to use? It is time for them to stop taking advantage of free promotion from the SL users. They lost that right long ago and their copyright system was only the last straw. SL users build SL, they do most of the work in promoting SL, and yet LL still owns the rights on the term "SL"? The least hey can do is pay for it.

Tateru Nino said on 1:48PM 8-25-2008

Technically, according to the terms-of-service Section 3.2: "..you understand and agree that by submitting your Content to any area of the service, you automatically grant (and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant) to Linden Lab: (a) a royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid-up, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to (i) use, reproduce and distribute your Content within the Service as permitted by you through your interactions on the Service, and (ii) use and reproduce (and to authorize third parties to use and reproduce) any of your Content in any or all media for marketing and/or promotional purposes in connection with the Service.."

So they already actually have the rights for content within the system for marketing. But these image and text submissions are just separate enough from the service legally that they're asking for permission again.

I'm pretty sure that there is no payment being offered for the material. The draft announcement in the wiki isn't quite final, though - some work was done on it shortly after we published. We'll wait and see.

Lem Skall said on 9:00PM 8-25-2008

Just saw this today. In a similar case, Adam Frisby from DeepThink is paying for pictures to promote OpenSim: http://www.adamfrisby.com/blog/2008/08/opensim-screenshot-competition-submit-your-builds/

Jay said on 6:04PM 8-25-2008

What does SL mean to me?

Nipples!

Oh hang on... I mean... No Nipples!

Otenth Paderborn said on 7:57PM 8-25-2008

So, let's get this straight: Linden Research, Inc., is preparing a promotional video about their only product, to be shown in public in 10-12 days, and they haven't yet publicly invited this input from customers? Oh, yeah, right, that'll be some video.

Will it be thrown together at the last minute, or is the request for customer input just customer manipulation with little actual effect on the final video?

Tateru Nino said on 11:00PM 8-25-2008

The timing on this is very tight, yes - especially when you factor in that submissions would probably take most people a few days. We're curious as to the results.