Mr. Farr,

Thank you for responding.

It would not randomly happen, It would be deliberate. It would be someone saying to themselves, "gee whiz all of the attmepts to support non-Victoria models have fizzled, no one really likes the way they look, everyone wants the look Daz tapped into."

Such a developer might then say, 'so much for fighting it, I want to join it' and begin development of a model from scratch, not by loading any portion of your intellectual property into the modelling program, and certainly not blatantly stealing your files. They would just attempt to capture the 'essential look and feeling' that makes Victoria so successful, such as the certain set to the mouth and nose and the body style that has become so familiar to everyone. This would be done by memory and reference to images, not by studying the bones and mesh.

I know this is a brazen point with which to confront the president of an important corporation, but here goes anyway. It just feels like the "substantially similar" clause in the EULA is designed to address just such a situation -- to deter the emergence of a model that has NO Daz DNA whatsoever, but does have a substantially similar look and feel. I don't know any other reason you would have it in there.

Please let me be clear...I am not involved in any business plan to take this action, and in fact would rather see either your company or Curious Labs or another party come up with a hugely successful alternative to Victoria. My motive is: I think Victoria is a poor model, and I do not like it that she has won such a following. That's as honest as I can be about this.

I respect you for coming into this wild forum and respresenting your company straight away.

Thank you,

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