I have more than a half dozen freebie and commercial figures by non-Daz developers that use the Unimesh texture layout - some sold here at Renderosity. That does not include the five DPH remaps that are available here at RMP and RMP Freestuff so there is a president of non-derivative figures that take Unimesh textures being commercial distributed without chalenge. I also have a number of figures independently re-mapped to DAZ Millenium 2 texture layouts. I think that although actual mesh can be copyrighted UV layout can not. I understand your position however, odf. I just am so tired of this alarmist attitude concerning supposed intelectual property issues... Daz has built its figures on borrowed inovations since 1999 and I along with 95% of PC users I am running an operating system boldly ripped from Apple. Companies like DAZ consider infringement not a moral or criminal matter but a calculation of cost benefit... if you read their EULA you will see they explicetly state that in purchasing any of their products you assume responsibility for any infringment on their part! I have never heard of any corporation honoring any intelectual property rights based on principal, only on calculation of likely liability. It is hard to establish real damages and substitution of product so unless the item is sold as an actual counterfit it is unlikely to be actionable... corporations simple use harassment suits and the threat of harassment suits in conection with eneforcable property claims and  EULAS. I hate to see the weight of the state brought to bare to protect specious intelectual property claims when the very same state will not persue my property claims in connection with someone kicking down my door on my private property and stealing my real property. Imagine if I left cash unattended on my front lawn or even the public sidewalk and then went to the authorities when that cash was taken from me! Why does this matter to me? Because if Picasso or Whorhol or Van Gogh or Gaugain (who painted from comercial post cards) were to come on the scene today they would have a bunch of volunteer thought police kicking their art up thier bottoms - no ofense to posters in this thread giving odf the heads up intended. I just feel strongly that intelectual property rights which were developed to encorage inovation and protect artists have been hijacked by private interests with a different agenda. When you are involved in the legal end of things you get a different perspective... they never say in the media that 99.5% of insurance fraud that is flogged in the media by insurers intent on tort reform is reported by these same companies as being fraud by insurers against consumers in their own internal and stockholder literature.