Just my thoughts to that coyyright issues here: a preface: Since I live in germany, I do not know the american copyright law, so some things may differ. If you want to see a work to be copyrighted, it need to have some degree of originality or must show some level of skill. Noone would concider it a copyright violation if I repeat a small sentence. I cannot claim copyright for a buying list, or an adress book. In germany we call this level "Schfungshe", which means "Level of creation" or "Quality of creation" . I think you will have a similar concept in US-Law too otherwise I could sue everyone who paints his car silver, because I have done that before. Hiram: I doubt that lighting sets are protected as a literary work. If they are, the author would be a software named poser, not some guy turning some dials. The "literary work" you see there is a generic template, with a few numbers changed. A computer software is written by humans, a pose or light file is NOT. Every light file contains exactly the same templates, there is no creativity in this. I really doubt you can copyright that. Here in Germany, I'm pretty sure you can't. You could not sell copied poses or lights here. This would be "unlauterer Wettbewerb". (unfair business/enterprise) Maybe someone should try to sue someone who is copying pose or light files. It would be intresting if the judge would copyright some dial settings. I doubt that.

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