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We appreciate being notified on this thread and hope to clarify a few points in question. We are gratefull to those who support copyright and licensing information from our company and others. Without your support it would not be feasable to do business in the software industry (especially with the ease of Internet distribution). DAZ Productions abides by a strict copyright-infringement policy. As quoted in the License Agreement, "Notice is hereby given that the 3-D Model(s) contains copyrighted and/or proprietary information protected by the laws of the United States. DAZ 3D retains all rights in, title to, and ownership of the 3-D Model(s). User shall take all steps reasonably necessary to protect DAZ 3D'S ownership rights." Whether sold or given away free DAZ does not allow its models to be redistributed, in part or whole. As was mentioned by others, if this model (or any model owned by DAZ or anyone else) is distributed in a format assuring that it is only available to those who already own that model, then there is no problem whatsoever. This is the case with .cr2 files for Victoria 1, for example, that modify the Poser figure without including any geometry that could be useful to those without the original product. However, in cases such as this gladiator helmet, it is quite simple for a non-Poser-owner to open the Poser file (which contains the geometry) in a text editor, and copy this data into a new document which can then be opened in an modeling program which reads .obj format. DAZ has never and will never use non-original meshes or meshes that it has not obtained through legal means (i.e. custom work-for-hire) for the creation of its products. All products and models produced by DAZ are original in their entirety. That being said, DAZ does frequently use existing models from the DAZ data-base in the creation of new DAZ models (we never use brokered products for this). It may be helpful to know the creation of the wolf that is included in Poser 4. This model was built when DAZ and Zygote were one company. As Zygote employees, Justin Wilson and Roger Clarke built a dog model based on digitized data from a sculpture created by Lee Prince (another Zygote employee at the time). Roger Clarke later used this dog as a starting point for the wolf, which Zygote set up for Poser and included in the Poser Animals CD that was sold shortly after the release of Poser 3 (3 yrs ago). Later it was included in Poser 4. These people would be willing to sign affidavits to this fact. The wolf mesh included within Poser 4 is 100% original and owned by Zygote and DAZ. DAZ handles copyright issues privately and will gladly answer any questions or concerns that you may have. If you have further questions about legal issue please email tech@daz3d.com We sincerely appreciate everyone's concern and support for this issue. Thanks, AnneMarie White DAZ Productions www.daz3d.com