Movable Redux: ToS is Scary

i recently wrote about the Movable viewer as a handy way of accessing SL without needing the client – use a Web browser to access SL, chat, and perform limited functions.

OK, but buyer beware and check under the hood.

Virtually Blind, a virtual legal firm, had a look at the terms of service and finds this clause:

6.2 Intellectual Property Rights. You acknowledge and agree that 3Di and/or its Affiliates retain the sole and exclusive right, title, and interest in and to the Intellectual Property Rights in this Site, the Movable Life Services, Site Code and Site Contents and all copies thereof, in whole and in part. All ideas, techniques, inventions, systems, formulae, discoveries, technical information, programs, prototypes, and similar developments (the “Developments”) developed, created, discovered, made, written, or obtained by you in the course of or as a direct or indirect result of accessing or using this Site and/or Movable Life Services, and all related industrial property, copyrights, patent rights, trade secrets, and other forms of protection thereof, shall be and remain the property of 3Di, and/or its Affiliates. You agree to execute or cause to be executed such assignments and applications, registrations, and other documents and to take such other action as may be requested by 3Di and/or its Affiliate to enable them to protect their rights to any such Developments.

Not nice!

Read their legal opinion here.

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