It is a good question darken666, but I think my answer atleast woud be if the textures were different there is a chance it wouldn't be an issue. The model is almost identical true but the color scheme makes it completely undeniable to anyone familiar with the character that it is intentionally trying to look as close as possible to the original... even down to the poses used in the promo shots being identical to some of of the art published by the company. At this point the package seems to be focusing not on the skill of the artist to produce something neat in the style of the 1980's rocker, but rather on the skill of the artist to nearly identically copy someone else's work.... And not reproducing it for the pure enjoyment of the series like fan-art and cosplay, but for pure profit. As to permission, this would be a matter of an 'officially licensed product' and they would have to list it as an officially licenced product on the product page and credit would have to be declaired. The page offers only the author and the 'Daz original' as the credits. Again... I reitterate the core question.... should this not be a matter of ethics over legality. Yes it is possible to make all these changes and make it legal, yes it is possible not get prosecuted because Square-enix may not find it worth the effort, yes it is possible to wholesale copy other people's stuff as long as they don't catch you and make you stop..... The question is, why is it a question in the first place to this community that values its rights as artists so highly? Should it really come down to a 'well if I make the buttons red I'm not copying' or should you ethically not even make it a question by not /trying/ to copy up to a point in the first place. There is such a thing as doing something inspired by.... I don't claim to be able to explain this nor do I even think I want to, but as fellow artists, I simply want to appeal to your sense of fairness and mutual respect. If I have caused you to think with this question than I have achieved my only goal... Is there a double standard on whose copyrights we respect and whose we totally ignore based on who uses poser and who doesn't? Is it the responsiblity of those monitoring us to make us do right, or is it our own responsiblity not to do wrong? Is it a world that you want to live in where you have to force people to do the right thing? I leave you with these thoughts because the questions and answers are becoming repetative and there are no easy answers.... there is a problem... I have brought it to your attention... I can't deal with it by myself, no one person can..... if the community feels ethics should be universal than it must be up to the community as a whole, not one person raising their voice. And with those thoughts I leave this thread... What will be, will be... I have had my say. Littlefox