It's a matter of ethics. My husband spent the money and went through the steps to copyright the name of his band. Then we find out another band is using the name. Do we want to spend the time, money and effort to go after the other band in court? Although we are clearly in the right, the other band can use the name until we stop them. As it was, the band understood and changed the name without a hassle, but if they hadn't I honestly don't know if we would have gone too far with this as it would have been very expensive for us to deal with it. I often wonder about the poses and the characters that others have created. It's like music, there are only so many notes and sooner or later someone will write something that sounds and reads close to someone else's work. If you create something entirely new, say like Dina, then I see a copyright. But to use someone else's product to change something and then try to "own" the changes strikes me as not being something you can copyright. There are only so many combinations you can use, and sooner or later someone will come up with something close, if not right on the money. Two different lawyers will come up with two different answers to the same question, it all seems to depend on which side they are defending. Would I buy a set of dial parameters? No. Would I buy a python script for lights? Yes. Marque