Copyright: The Worst Offender

Darlings, our limited time in SL® brought us to go on one of these famous, Ohana Isle Treasure Hunts. The link was sent out to one of my groups to go the hunt. To what do my wondering eyes should appear but a giant house of trademark infringement. There is one business that is entirely based on the Disney® empire. This store not only sells items that infringe on Disney's registered trademarks but they are even named after a copyrighted television show, House of Mouse. Given the recent trademark issues that LL® has imposed on its residents, I am shocked to see a store such as this not only in SL but on the sim as established as Ohana Isle. After some discussion, I believe one of the hunters was going to report the store to see what would happen.You would think the sim owner would recognized the severity of this infringement and disallow this shop on their land.

Let's see what Disney owned properties are being used here: Pirates of the Caribbean, Finding Nemo, Alice in Wonderland, Nightmare Before Christmas, House of Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Mickey Mouse Club, Lilo and Stitch, Fantasia, Disneyland Theme Park chacters, Disney World Theme Park characters.

Pictorial evidence:




©Disney/Pixar.
"The Legend of Tarzan" Owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. And Used by Permission.
©Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
TM and ©BVS Entertainment, Inc. and BVS International N.V. All rights reserved.
©ABC Family Properties, Inc. and BVS International N.V.
Underlying Property TM and ©TOEI Animation Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.
©Aoki Takao.BB2 Project.TV Tokyo. Licensed by d-rights inc.
SPIDER-MAN and all related characters and the distinctive likenesses thereof
are trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc and are used with permission.
TM and ©Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved.
TM and ©Disney

More on Disney copyrights and trademarks are located at http://home.disney/com.

Minn-Pu

It all began simple enough. Minnu Palen released her much awaited Gen 4 skins that had been delayed due to a content theft protest to protect her fellow skin makers. Minnu decided to educate us all about the designer Alexander McQueen. This time she has tried to claim the work of Danae Kotsi as her own. I have been following the threads on Shopping Cart Disco(here, here, and here) and SL Univerise very closely.

Do I believe that Minnu is guilty? You bet your sweet arse I do. Even my slightly near-sighted Nan can see that these skins are the same. To come almost a month later(must have been feeling the DMCA breathing down her neck) and state she used some of the work is just a load of codswallop. Her paid defenders(employees of GLAM World) were so quick to say that we were all blind and they look nothing alike. They believe us all to be simpleton without independent thought in our heads. It is utter rubbish.

All of this has lead me, sweet readers, to delete every bit of Minnu products that I own. It saddens me to waste all of those lindens but it disgusts me to even have her products in my inventory.

Such a big ado was made by Minnu Palen about content theft. Oh the irony.

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Rumours are abound...

The rumour mill is going round and round and round.

Rumour has it that a certain blogger, fast to accuse people of theft, is the alt of the a major hair designer. (maybe)

Rumour has it one skin designer is just too good to be true. (Update: true)

Rumour has it that another certain blogger, fast to be snarky about anything, is the alt of a freebie blogger. (maybe)

Rumour has it that 2 writers on the same blog are the same person. (Update: false)

Rumour has it that there is an Linden spy in a major designer group. (maybe)

Rumour has it a famous design team hates each other. (Update: true)

Rumour has it that one blogger blames another for all the misfortune that befalls her. (true)

Rumour has it that an accessory designer in a major control freak. (Update: true)

Where Are You?

Darlings, I know you cannot find us in the search anymore because we took off our avatar names. The reason is that we deleted out original avatars for Elle and Bianca due to some interesting drama involving a stalker. Sweeties, some men just don't take no for an answer. We still have our alts so we will be using them for now until such time as we recreate ourselves, with new last names of course. Be on the lookout for some interesting stuff coming up because summer is our slower time in RL.

As for stalkers in Second Life, Darlings, go back to your mother's basements and another Jaffa cake.