Here's a question. Let's say IMVU does start changing the policy of what they can do with submissions on FA. Perhaps they say by continuing to use the site, IMVU is allowed to sell submissions for profit without needing the artist's consent. Whoever is using the site gets to make their own decision about whether to keep using it but what about people who joined before those rules but are now no longer active? Or people who have died? Or people who posted submissions but were later banned? (With FA, that's a long list.) In those cases the people posted to the site under a different set of rules but no longer are able to remove submissions in response to future changes in the site direction. How will that be dealt with? Will those submissions be marked as exceptions to the current rules? Will FA make every effort to contact those affected or those that could represent their estate? Or will FA just delete all art from inactive members?
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
Here's a question. Let's say IMVU does start changing the policy of what they can do with submissions on FA. Perhaps they say by continuing to use the site, IMVU is allowed to sell submissions for profit without needing the artist's consent. Whoever is using the site gets to make their own decision about whether to keep using it but what about people who joined before those rules but are now no longer active? Or people who have died? Or people who posted submissions but were later banned? (With FA, that's a long list.) In those cases the people posted to the site under a different set of rules but no longer are able to remove submissions in response to future changes in the site direction. How will that be dealt with? Will those submissions be marked as exceptions to the current rules? Will FA make every effort to contact those affected or those that could represent their estate? Or will FA just delete all art from inactive members?
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~