John (Opera Guy). Not avoiding the question just as I had stated have been overwhelmed by too many. Here is a specific answer to your scenario. If someone arrives with the character that you have suggested without having to copy DAZ's copyrighted and Eula protected products then I don't see how we would have any claim to protect it. But realistically what are the chances of that randomly happening . Here is a test. Does the new work require the use of the original DAZ file to get to the end goal? For example. If you are building a 3D woman model, do you need to load Victoria into the modeling application while you are modeling to use her as a guide or a template? If it does then it clearly is derivative. The same things goes with JP's, UV's etc. Don't make derivatives of the files. Create it from scratch and then there will be no need to encode it. And to answer the question further, I don't know how you can end up with the same UV's on a different mesh without somehow copying them. I hope that I have addressed your question accurately. If not please rephrase it for me so I can understand better what you are asking. Sincerely, Dan Farr President, DAZ Productions