I stand corrected about Weird Al. Actually, I suspected, strongly, that he had permission to do what he was doing. Intellectual property law isn't all THAT hard to understand. If you strip away all the helpful illusions and excuses what you have is, basically, is; "If it was created within this century then yoou can't use it without permission." People keep trying to wriggle about it with "Fair use" but that is limited, specialized, and also in large part up to interpretation -- which means if the guy you are stealing from can afford a good lawyer, you may be in big trouble. The flip side is, they might not care what you are doing. In general pictures on fansites from television and film, and fan-written fiction in the worlds of above, are ignored. These acts are illegal, however, and some studios have been quite harsh in reaction (recent publicized case of an SG-1 fansite closed down and the computers confisticated). I guess there is a connection. The major behaviors that got her banned were both IP-related issues. One was taking information that was classified as confidential and broadcasting it. Certainly, it wasn't secure, but that doesn't give the right to abuse that lack of security. The other involved transferance of a mesh. They have total right to determine how they give you this mesh. If they chose to make it only available from 5 to 7 Greenwhich and you had to use a proxy server in Bulgaria, then that would be how it was done. I am assuming, of course, that the EULA for the Sara (?) figure had the usual non-distribution language on it.