Apez – Ciaran Laval

There I am reading the official forums when I see a post : Apez Sold Yet Again, WTF I thik, Apez is still going? Seriously? Apez? However no, it’s a necropost, updated by Wiseguy Capra whose business merged with Apez back in its heyday. Apez was a nice system and had a nice rental system.

However Wiseguy wants to know what happened to the assets associated with Apez, as he owns the intellectual property rights to some of those assets and he’s making a return to Second Life, in his post he says:

“Sorry for digging this up after all the time that has passed but I need to clarify my own stand in this matter.

In late 2008 SLCI – SL Content Innovations joined forces with Apez. At that time the entire product line which was known under the [SLCI] brand was moved over to Apez, re-branded and then available for sale until Cenji decided to sell Apez.

During that time I moved to Spain and had more important things on mind than SL. However, when the news about Cenji selling Apez popped I made it very clear that the [SLCI] products will remain [SLCI] prooperty and may not be sold to any 3rd party nor may any 3rd party be given any permission to sell those products.

This includes:

Control-Demon Home Control (builders and private editions)
All modules available for CD including the security system, mailbox, teleporter etc
All [SLCI] created texture packs including the terrain texture pack which has always been one of the best selling in SL
Multi-Media Rack, Radio player and all prefabs created by [SLCI] and sold under Apez.

So whoever the new owner of Apez is I don’t wish to see any of those products in SL. Yes I have been away for a couple of years but the copyright of all those products remains with me. I still have all the original texture files and control-demon source code and ANY [SLCI] products found on “ApezProducts Engineer” (now called ApezProducts Tomorrow” are my intelectual property.

Control-demon will return to SL soon. All current owners of the builders edition will receive a update in the next weeks.

Also, if anybody knows who bought Apez in the end please message me.”

Continue reading “Whatever Happened To Apez?”

In a surprising incident, Apez has ran out of Linden dollar reserves after a what is described as a “Run on the bank”, the surprising part being, Apez wasn’t a bank in the first place.

Rumours about the demise of Apez started a few weeks ago, with a concerned thread on SL Universe, which can be read here, posing uncomfortable questions about withdrawals and complaints.

However things ran into panic mode over a thread on the Apez forums from Cenji Neutra asking for interested parties to contact Apez regarding management and operational assistance, Cenji wanted to stay in the loop and still be involved, which makes the panic a little surprising but possibly following on from the earlier issues, people decided to withdraw now, this is an unfortunate consequence of previous failed ventures from fomrer inworld businesses that longer term residents will be aware of. Continue reading “Apez Hits The Buffers”