"Note to all vendors: I do not regard color changes as different textures. Whether it is skin or clothing or a prop, if all that is changed is the hue, then it should be advertised as a "color variation". Only if you change the pattern is there a texture change".

Well said hauksdottir!

And neither does anyone enforcing copyright. We have seen this with people using elements (in small proportions) of Staale's textures and being hammered (rightly so) for doing so. In such circumstances this has been considered theft.

Where I live there is consumer protection legislation, in Ireland and throughout Europe.

If a supplier in Ireland misleads a customer by re-labelling a product (that is essentially the same as being sold under a different name) he can be prosecuted under various enabling laws. False Advertising all the way to Fraud. So even if such laws do not exist in the USA there must be protection for customers apart from caveat emptor!

Just my 0.02