1st posting copyrighted photos without permission to renderosity from the web can get rendersoity in trouble. it's posted in their agreement that ya don't do it. it's let slide a lot, a lot of people think it's okay to just grab a pic and throw it as a reference for people to see what they are talking about. it's still wrong. 2nd digital cloneing of actors, or characters from films and movies for personal use is fine, but when you post that picture then you get into grey area, or even a copyright/trademark area EVEN if it's posted freely. it is always best to check with people that control the copyright/trademark before you post a picture even if it's free. it's done a lot, a lot of the time it's not a big deal. I'm a big fan of SCIFI channel Farscape HUGE fan. I wanted to do some digital cloning of some of the characters, models and sets. I was told no that they were looking into fanart sites and that there were a lot of copyright infringments out on the web and that they were not giving permission to use any likeness or endorce anything but the licenceing. the issue of digital cloning has come up before also. when Daz had their digital clone of ana marie a playboy model. the terms of use for the images were so restrictive that Daz rewrote the tos for the product and it still has limits on what Anna Marie wanted people to do with her image even in poser. She was afraid of people using the likeness of her in product endorcements and graphic porn images. Even a freebie of a model, famous person, or tv or movie character they have a right. I understand that the discussion is about doing it, but in the same discussion should be the concequences of doing it and where artist/cloned persons rights are. I like Slideshows figurines. I've read their legal use clause on their site and the image of buffy up there didn't have anything saying they got permission, and the image was cropped giving no credit to the creators. Far too often it's let slide and thought to be okay, but it's not. Should be a link to the image on slideshows site and the image shouldn't be posted. not trying to upset anybody, just think people should be aware.