The DAZ backdrop is nothing like mine. Their's is designed to "look" like a photographer's studio backdrop. Mine is not designed to "look" like anything. It is designed to give an outdoor scene a better place to hang than the poser "Background Image." In a scene using my backdrop, the idea is to not see the backdrop, but what was pasted on it. Nobody, that I could find, had done it this way before. The bulk of the products based on, or for, DAZ products introduce new features or capability to the product. A texture adds diversity to the product--making it more desirable. A Morph does the same. People are not building exact copies of Mike or Vicky to give away. They are adding features to the product. Nobody here is saying that you can't sell floor mats and window tint that fit a Chevy. We are saying you can't make a car exactly like a Chevy and market it. In fact, the people who purchase my backdrop get complete instructions on creating their own maps AND if they send in maps and I use them, they get credit in the Nerd3d Store.. An extreme wide angle photo. Probably a 26-30 mm lens on a 35mm camera. On my little digital camera I take 4 shots and stitch them together. Portrait (tall) 4 X 3 aspect ratio. The horizon line needs to be right down the middle. The bottom of the photo should almost get your toes. (Some of my raw shots did!) The rest of the magic is in the UV map. As soon as I get about 20 really good ones I'll release a collection (probably free) and those people will get rewarded for helping me improve my product. Why tell everybody how to make maps? Because with more people making maps, my product becomes even more versatile. DAZ, Curious Labs and practically anybody in business know that complimentary accessories enhance a product's desirability. Why do you think DAZ gives away the texture templates for Vicki and Mike? Heck, you don't even have to own the product to download them. Now, if it was such a simple idea, then why didn't anybody do it before me? Because they never got the IDEA. The IDEA, the real intellectual property, is the hardest part. Ask any artist, not just a graphic artist but a musician, a painter or a sculptor, what the hardest part of art is. The answer you will get from them all is, "An original IDEA." Once you know where you are going, it is just a matter of technical skill to get there. A man named Gillette had an exceedingly simple idea that made him very rich. The disposable razor blade. Is there something wrong with a simple idea? Not if you ask King Gillette. If visualkinetics' tool was designed to improve my idea, do something different or better. I would be the first in line to congratulate him. I would put my mind to work to find another way to improve Poser. (Oh, the ideas I have for y'all.) But, it doesn't improve my idea. It does the same thing. It's the same idea.