You cannot copy a method of doing something, but you can copyright the way in which it is done. This seems to me to be the case. I am not a copyright lawyer, but one of my hobbies is writing a tabletop game, which I intend to copyright. I have a copy of those guidelines. This seems to me to be why there is a Monopoly (tm) and lots of other "poly" type games (for colleges and cities and so forth). The method of going around the board and collecting things and paying money and such is not a copyright. So turning dials within Poser is not copyrightable. I hate to see anyone ripped off, if that is the case. I think it is somewhat unethical, though. Here's the actual text on this: -- WHAT IS NOT PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT? Several categories of material are generally not eligible for federal copyright protection. These include among others: Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression (for example, choreographic works that have not been notated or recorded, or improvisational speeches or performances that have not been written or recorded) Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation, or illustration Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship (for example: standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from public documents or other common sources) --

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