DAZ is still selling, to their licensed customers, what does not belong to them. If this was real property, it would be called conversion, and the law would stomp pretty heavily on it. Since it is intellectual property, it is a lot harder to defend ownership rights, especially with a middleman facilitating the theft. Furthermore, they are not even telling all the brokered artists what they are doing with the images created to sell product. BTW, have all of them even been notified yet... are is awareness still filtering through word-of-mouth? If DAZ is making money from selling clip-art rights, DAZ ought to be paying royalties to the artists whose work has been taken. If not a monthly stream (which might be hard to compute, based upon clicks), then a one-time royalty fee for each piece for right to use as clip art. The artist can then decide whether or not to sell that right. This ought to have been thought through in advance, and reality-checked. It ought to have been discussed out-of-house with a few brokers (not to sell them on the advantages but just to guage their honest reactions to the plan). The newsletter ought to have been proofread and all links checked BEFORE being sent on the winds of fate. (Looking at it in html would have revealed the broken links to the wrong areas.) A specific approved designated area with full legalese ought to have been set up before the newsletter was released... not a week later upon prodding and pitchforking. AND some effort to protect the non-approved images ought to have been set up first. Saying "don't take the gallery images" isn't going to be enough to save them... or DAZ. Given the Nemo, Indiana Jones, and LOTR stuff on the site, it is obvious that DAZ isn't worried about anybody's copyrights except their own. Pity. They used to be an admirable company. Carolly