umm.. let me restate - its not 'his' light collection. were not talking about two competing products here, or some sortof dispute over an idea. its a repackaging of my marketplace product. and he has pulled it from his site, btw. and were not talking about copyrighting a method here. a 'method' would be the entire GI emulation preset lighting style - and if that were copyrightable, i would be guilty as well, since i believe someone else started that whole idea. he HAS taken a very precise and elaborate set of lights and DIRECTLY copied them. no, you cannot copyright an idea. if ford makes a new car, i look at it, and make my own that looks similar, then i am perfectly within my rights. however, if i steal the blueprints, and build the EXACT same car, just with a wheelbase thats 1/4 of an inch longer, ive committed a very serious crime. this is what were talking about here. he hasnt just created lights that LOOK the same, hes renamed and repacked the EXACT same light scenes. it is inconceivable that someone can create a light scene with 24 different lights with the EXACT same orientation in 3d space, in the EXACT same order, with the EXACT same intensities/shadow settings and color settings... (although some of them were conveniently altered a tenth of a degree) what were talking about here is beyond coincidence. not in a million years could a thousand people reproduce it like that, even if he had the original side by side. there is no way to reproduce so many lights in a scene so precisely unless he modified the original.