Daz has never allowed their texture maps to be redistributed in any form. There are plenty of free texture maps that are entirely original--Mitch of www.mitch3dseite.de does 'em for the fish, robin wood of www.robinwood.com has some for vicky, I've got one for michael in the freestuff here. And Catharina's photographic textures are awesome...if you buy the top-end license agreement from her site, by the way, you can use her maps in your own maps. It's not super easy to paint a texture map from scratch or to photograph your own model, but it's not super easy to write a book from scratch either. Doesn't make it ok to lift passages or even a sentence from someone else's book, and it's not ok to lift pieces from proprietary maps, either; even small ones like fingernails and tongues. If those parts are so unimportant, why would you need to take them from a proprietary map? Just paint 'em. We're all bound not by what's commonly done but by the contracts that we've agreed to, and anyone using any daz product does so having agreed to their license agreement. This is not a change in policy. MaryCanary