the copyright issue is why i keep all downloads on my personal site. I also undergo extensive posting of pics to locate authors I have been looking for over a year with thousands of hits to the indivdual pics and found only 2 owners of almost 500 models pictured (neither of them even had copies of the file any more). These are obscure, props, poses and textures that were obscure when they were originally posted. I am not unaware of the reality of infringement possibility, but I also understand that once a file has been updated fair use comes into play. I can take a poser 2 fig pose it with pose made for poser 2, and then just as easily emulate it with version 4, and because of the non compatibility of the 2 files, I see no more infringement than if i copied the sitting pose of someone off the street. textures must be converted, which is doable by anyone who has knowledge of photoshop.

Props are the only part i can concieve of a problem with in terms of copyright, and may or may not get posted. i however worked long enough with a copyright lawyer to know that the most i would ever get for distributing the files I would potentially distribute, based upon the lack of documentation provided with these certain files and put out into public domain for free download, would be a cease and desist order, providing they can prove ownership of the exact duplicate down to the very last polygon. I however am in no way advocating everyone working in the grey area of copyright law. I think that there has been so many undocumented files in public domain that has been lost, that the really trully cool stuff should be circulated again giving credit where credit is do and looking for orignal authors to credit them for former brilliance. And those things no one can remember having ever seen or having made, should be shared like stories among friends