Moral charter of the Character
Hosting Companies and of the WEM management
1 - The
Virtual Worlds System, composed of the Character Hosting Companies,
Virtual Worlds Hosting Companies, World users/owners groups and the
WEM Management, has for purpose to provide a full freedom of
expression, purposes, styles, philosophies and activities into the
virtual worlds.
Each of
these companies or group is economically and legally independent, but
they all support the WEM Management, as a common service.
The WEM
management is made of two
entities:
The WEM
Technical Management is a non-profit organization which handles
the routine technical or legal issues. It has authority to certify
software or hardware, or to request bugs solving.
The WEM
Technical management is supervised by the International Virtual
Worlds Management Council, a non-profit organization which
gathers artists, humanitarian people, spiritual people and
philosophers, being psychologically normal, and having positive views
toward virtual worlds, arts, science, spirituality, social evolution,
or human rights. The ordinary purpose of the International Virtual
Worlds Management Council is to take decisions regarding technical,
human or legal evolution of the WEM system and virtual worlds at
large, keeping a watch on new technologies and new types of uses, in
order to implement them or to solve any new issue which may arise.
2 -
Character Hosting Companies, Virtual Worlds Hosting Companies,
software designers and
the WEM Technical Management provide the best available quality
offers and most recent technologies, and allow the virtual worlds for
running as best as technically possible. They offer stable,
simple, logical and intuitive user interfaces suitable for all.
3 -
Character Hosting Companies and the WEM management actively
protect virtual worlds, users and owners, the enjoyment of virtual
worlds and fitness to any purpose or style, against any sabotage,
abuse, griefing, harassing, tempering software, piracy, copyright
theft, spam, viruses, censorship, abuses indicated in point 7, etc.
4 -
Character Hosting Companies are neutral partners for both users
and world owners. They don't impose any explicit or implicit purpose,
roleplay, philosophy, ideology, style, way of being, national view,
etc.
5a -
Character Hosting Companies are a safe recipient for any private,
copyrighted or confidential data, that they will not disclose.
Character Hosting Companies will store all the data of a character or
user into a reliable way, even in case of large unpredictable events
like catastrophes, wars, dictatorship, bankruptcy, theft, etc.
5b - To
the users, the Character Hosting Companies will allow them with a
stable federated identity for their characters, that they will
be able to easily transfer to another Character Hosting
Company, while keeping all its elements and properties, including
pending disciplinary measures.
5c - In
favour of the world owners, the Character Hosting Companies will
perform checking of the physical identities of the users,
with several reliability levels. Each world will be
open to the level the owner will think fit.
6 - Valid
exceptions to point 5a are for activities infringing on the respect
of the persons and the good functioning of the physical and virtual
societies: - Physical, virtual or intellectual property theft -
physical, moral or sexual violence, ragging, attacks, stalking,
defamation, violation of private life, identity theft, use of the
image... - Exploitation of work - racist, sexist discrimination,
hateful speech, calls to violence, extremism - delinquency or
terrorism into the physical world. - virtual representation of some
especially nasty, violent or disgusting activities.
In case of
a dispute between users or world owners, Character Hosting
Companies neutrally gather evidences and fairly apply decisions.
Character Hosting Companies may manage a first level in dispute
solving, when it is enough to automatically apply rules. But
unresolved disputes must go to appropriate courts or instances,
together with the set of evidences gathered by the Character Hosting
Company. So the legal rôle of Character Hosting Companies is
clearly established from the beginning, to avoid falling again
into the dreadful lack of care of the 2D Internet access providers.
National
or international laws are expected to efficiently cope with all these
situations.
For these purposes, Character
Hosting Companies will provide judiciary tools and authorizations
to intervene or gather evidences into the virtual worlds, according
to the laws and procedures on judiciary inquiries, especially on protection
of private life and freedom of
expression. However they shall remain independent of judiciary
or police authorities.
7 - There
may be some abnormal situations which should not happen, where
the International Virtual Worlds Management Council may have to take
extraordinary decisions, in order to protect virtual worlds
and their users:
7a - Being
neutral sometimes leads to be trapped into situations where
neutrality is turned against its purpose and becomes harmful in its
turn, such as in stalking, griefing, discriminations, cults and
fanaticism issues, etc. If any situation makes that keeping neutral
results into harm or injustice, whatever into morals, politics,
spirituality, lifestyle, philosophical choices, etc. then the WEM
management will favour the most positive view, going toward the
overall welfare, happiness and evolution of mankind and individuals:
freedom against dictatorship, organisation over disorder, peace
against war or violence, peace keeping over lefting violence going
on, beauty against ugliness, calm against noise, environment against
destruction of nature, society welfare over petty interests, spoiled
people over privileged people, altruism over egocentricity, respect
of persons over stalking, true spirituality against cults or
fanaticism, science against beliefs and dogma, objective or checked
information against lies and rumours, understanding and ponderation
against extreme views, mankind or persons over national views, etc.
7b - The
rightful purpose of laws or state decisions is to protect persons and
society. For this reason it is a duty to obey them, even if they
show unpleasant in some cases. However when law and state
decisions are turned against this legitimate purpose, the duty may
become not to obey them. For this reason, the Virtual Worlds
System shall not collaborate with, or be used for any activity
related to war, international disputes, state or private spying,
conflicts, dictatorship, repression of freedom, propaganda,
violations of human rights, destruction of environment,
attacking or discriminating users or
characters of an «enemy» country. The Virtual Worlds
System may however collaborate with truly legitimate defence or clear
humanitarian intervention. The Virtual Worlds System shall not
collaborate with governments which limit freedom of expression,
infringe into human rights, or in a general way don't provide with
enough protection of the persons and their rights.
The
situations in point 7b are not a legitimate application of point 6,
so that in these cases point 6 is not a valid exception to point 5a.
Governments concerned by point 7b shall be banned from the
International Virtual Worlds Management Council or technical WEM
management, and shall see their judiciary authorisations and tools
removed of the Virtual Worlds System. Character Hosting Companies
concerned by point 7b shall see their judiciary authorisations and
tools removed of the Virtual Worlds System. Depending on their
responsibility, these Character Hosting Companies may get a degraded
statute allowing world owners to ban them from their worlds.
Depending on their responsibility, the users of these Character Hosting
Companies can be banned, restricted, or on the contrary get a
protected statute, untouched by the blame on their Character Hosting
Company: the Metaverse political refugee statute.
Countries or Character Hosting Companies which are
not usually concerned by point 7b, but do it in a peculiar case, may
see their judiciary tools and authorisations disabled, on this peculiar case
or for a given magistrate
(Outreau Clause).
In a reverse way, governments aimed at by point 7b, can receive judiciary
authorisations, on a case per case basis, for obvious criminal affairs, as
soon as they pay checking costs by the WEM.
7c -
Extraordinary Decisions regarding point 7a and 7b, and also regarding
any extreme situation in points 3, 4 and 5a, will be taken by the
International Virtual Worlds Management Council, acting as an Human
Rights Watch. In this case, it will have power to control the
switches in the Virtual Worlds System, about judiciary authorisations
and tools. Its decisions are to be based on ponderated, objective
and multisource data, and on scientific data when relevant.
7d - The
International Virtual Worlds Management Council should be a part of
the United Nations, or accept its commands, into the frame of an
international law system protecting virtual worlds and their users.
But this cannot be, as long as countries which violate human
rights are involved into the management of the United Nations, or
in a general way as long as endure the today anarchy at an
international level. So until these problems are solved, the WEM
management will remain an independent body. It will work discretely to achieve
its purpose at best, at need in collaboration with international authorities.
But if these international authorities are defaulting, then the
International Virtual Worlds Management Council will take the decisions
a good international laws and decisions system should take.
17 - Intellectual property statute
of the WEM architecture,
elements and future contributions
-This description of the WEM architecture is covered by a GNU GPL license,
distinct of the Kailye license.
The only author is Richard Trigaux (Yichard Muni in Second Life).
-The «WEM» name is
covered by the same terms. The WEM is a type of network architecture.
-All future versions, modifications,
additions, MUST be covered by the same terms, whoever their author.
-Other future authors or contributors, persons or
companies, are free to acknowledge their contribution.
-Any of these texts can be reproduced
without asking authorisation, provided that the source, license type
and authorship are indicated.
-Anybody is free to implement and use
the WEM architecture for any legal purpose save military, for free or for
commercial use, without having to ask for authorisation or without
owing any money.
-The previous point is valid TO THE CONDITION that the resulting product
or creation is interoperable with similar or related products or software of other
source or brand. Use of WEM architecture is not free into closed
systems, such as for instance a simulator or a platform world with can be accessed
with only some specialized browser or special character. In this case the WEM Intellectual property
rights are those of a classical copyright owned by Richard Trigaux (expandable
to other contributors).
Proof of anteriority:
00047530
Legal disclaimers (laws of democratic
countries, or International Law if none apply):
-Use of the
Kmetaconn
command or the Konnect
command is allowed only into the context of the WEM architecture, or
another with the same legal bindings, into the legal conditions
described in
11.4 - Judiciary uses of the Konnect command and
11.5 - World metaconnexion request: the Kmetaconn command.
-Use of WEM-Kailye flags about personal
data is allowed only if they reflect exact facts and are used into
the legal conditions about privacy protection. This data is considered
private, as long as the concerned person does not specify otherwise.
-Places
or elements with the private flag are
legally private.
-Use of ~legal Kailye covenants and
other legally binding elements is allowed only if they are used into
the legal conditions about such bindings. But if so, they actually legally
bind the concerned persons or companies, under their responsibility.
-Use, abuse or default of legal WEM and Kailye elements is under the
responsibility of the involved persons or companies.