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"Made In SL. Modified in OS."
Create: to produce (something new, such as a work of art) by using your talents and imagination.
Contribute: to help to cause something to happen.
The Britannica Dictionary
When you copybot, import, and modify something from SL, you are a (most likely uninvited and unwelcome) contributor to something someone else created.
When you can provide proof you are the creator of, and not just a contributor to, an item in OS, then it can be said that you are a verified creator.
Synonyms of Verified:
incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, inescapable, irrefutable, undeniable, unquestionable, authenticated, confirmed, demonstrated, established, proven, substantiated, validated, actual, factual, genuine, real, sure-enough, true.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verified
When you ask that your "creation" not be distributed in OS, it's fair to ask to see
1. Validation you are the creator or
2. Validation that you have permission to copy, modify and exclusively distribute something someone else created.
Unfortunately, there is no organized verification or certification process. (Is it even possible?)
Lacking this verification, simply claiming to be the creator of, or contributor to, an item gives you no rights over it.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Contribute: to help to cause something to happen.
The Britannica Dictionary
When you copybot, import, and modify something from SL, you are a (most likely uninvited and unwelcome) contributor to something someone else created.
When you can provide proof you are the creator of, and not just a contributor to, an item in OS, then it can be said that you are a verified creator.
Synonyms of Verified:
incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, inescapable, irrefutable, undeniable, unquestionable, authenticated, confirmed, demonstrated, established, proven, substantiated, validated, actual, factual, genuine, real, sure-enough, true.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verified
When you ask that your "creation" not be distributed in OS, it's fair to ask to see
1. Validation you are the creator or
2. Validation that you have permission to copy, modify and exclusively distribute something someone else created.
Unfortunately, there is no organized verification or certification process. (Is it even possible?)
Lacking this verification, simply claiming to be the creator of, or contributor to, an item gives you no rights over it.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
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In terms of Creative Commons, as I understand it, what we see in OS are unauthorized derivative works of items that are not even offered under any Creative Commons license.
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You could try to prove that you've created something by declaring it open-source and offering the source files to the public, source files that you could impossibly have obtained by taking something from SL which means not only textures. You could, for example, have your own Git repository for your source files.
But even then, others will have to trust the claim that the owner of that repository and those files is also behind the avatar who offers the end products in OpenSim.
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But even then, others will have to trust the claim that the owner of that repository and those files is also behind the avatar who offers the end products in OpenSim.