The arguement that material room settings cannot be copyrighted sounds great doesn't it? Very convenient.

However... what about the 100's of pose packs in the marketplace? Or the lighting sets ? The background packs ? ALL of these things you can do yourself, what you're paying for is someone's time and talent. Is it ok to rip those guys off too, because by your own arguement the dials are there so it's fair game?

So.. he gave a free gift to the community and as such he should be penalised and forfeit all rights? Hmmm, not much incentive for the people who DO make the effort to continue to do so, is there ?

As has been said, taking someone's freebie to learn from it is all well and good, most people do at some stage and it's a good way to learn your way around Poser and a lot more interesting than the Poser manual itself, but deliberately taking someone else's work when you know it's possibly not legal but definately not ethical is another.