You're doing a fine job AnneMarie, but effecting a policy change this significant in the way your products are sold and used requires more than a couple of forum posts which have been move to the backwaters. This is not really the time to discontiue this topic on a public level. Sorry, I do respect DAZ's right and responsibility to protect their products, but I would suggest that DAZ will have a hard time changing the rules after the fact. Their established policies and practices are in contradiction to the license agreement. Allow me to explain. For several years now, the default texture maps that came with the Poser products have been publicly posted as a means of transferring revisions among users. This has been done with the full knowledge and tacit encouragement of the product suppliers - Meta, Zygote,Curious & DAZ. This exchange of revisions and enhancements amongst users was the basis of the evolution of the Poser online community. The online community itself increased the value of the products to the end user and has been touted by the product suppliers as one of the significant advantages of their products. In essence, this free public exchange of copyrighted materials was one of the major selling points of the products, i.e. I bought their product based largely on the fact that I would be able to increase its value to me by exchanging enhancements with other users as was suggested in its marketing and by its historic public usage. I am not challenging DAZ's right to restrict the exchange and distribution of future products, but most of us bought these products with the clear understanding that this practice was both permitted and encouraged. ------------------------------------ Now, taking off the Perry Mason suit for a moment, in a practical sense, DAZ must supply at least one map with the initial purchase that CAN be exchanged between licensed users. Most of the enhancements in texture maps by users deal with only a few features on the map and not the whole figure. For a user to share a new face, tattoo, scar, or any other partial addition to a figure, it must be included in a full texture map for most licensees to be able to use it directly. Strict adherence to the new policy suggests that for me to share a new tattoo with the community I would have to create my own teeth, eyelashes, eyes, lips, etc. as well. If I'm not interested in making new teeth and fingernails then, according to their revised policy, I cannot share my work with other licensed users. As this exchange of enhancements is what has brought the greatest value to these products (how many of you would have originally bought, or still be using and upgrading these products if you could only use them the way they came out of the box?) then it would clearly not be in the interest of either the publishers or the end users to now change this policy and historic public practice. DAZ has now put us on notice that this will not be allowed with their new products. OK, no beef with that as long as I know it before the purchase. However, I must agree with the suggestion made above that at least one map that comes with the purchase of a product must be available to users as a means of exchanging partial user revisions.