find other people’s work that is amazing it will appear on our blog or be invited to our flickr groups. I like to promote other peoples work and share all the awesome designs out there.” Occasionally there will be a blog or some other item indicating a texture was resold or used in violation of the creator’s permissions and it can very upsetting for the original artist. Amisha expounds on these matters by saying a “common misconception are (I guess what most full permission sellers have to deal with) the fact that textures have to be copy, modify and transfer so that builders and designers can create and resell their ideas. This can lead to some issues over being able to easily resell or use them outside of Second Life, but the majority of people care about their own businesses and designs and respect our licenses. Luckily we have not had any real issues with copying or reselling of our textures, its part of the overall business we are in and you have to be prepared. The key is not to wait until it happens but be proactive in preventing it; we provide quality textures and have built up a respect among creators that works both ways. We are also part of trade organizations and illustrator associations that help protect our work. They are there to help protect our rights (copyright and intellectual
property rights) and it also helps us keep up to date with news that could have an impact on our business.” InSight Designs is also one of the few texture stores that take part in a lot of shopping events and hunts! Miss March said that “Spruce up Your Space was one of the first to invite us to take part in an event and we love it. But I think in general over the last year again it’s become much more common for events, hunts and expos to include texture artists and other full permission content creators. Full permission creators are a