Quote - Does daz consider 3rd party textures of their mil figures to be derivatives?

uh no.  textures are usually done using the daz supplied (or snowsultans) texture seam guides.

making a texture is not dirivitive.  converting a daz texture and sending anywhere would just be a straight violation.  a dirivitive would be adding tatoo's to a texture and saying that it was yours when the base is Daz, something completly different.

now that there is a tatoo plugin for texture converter I'm sure a lot of the tatoo flash sites are gunna start getting involved, there have already been a couple of figure textures with copyrighted tatoo's used and the products pulled cause of copyright.

gunna be fun watching this all unfold.