Actually, I see a few ways around the file format issue, if it even is one: 1. Competitors could use existing file conversion utilities, leaving the legalities with the utility creator. 2. License with another company that Poser content can currently be converted into (ie, .obj and .3ds). If CL ever supports exporters for these other file formats, then using these file formats would make sense. 3. I am not sure that CL can even claim copyright on a plain text file. I offer the restrictions on copyrightable material direct from the Copyright site: "102(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work." I believe that all of the coordinate information, etc, contained within the CL file formats could possibly be considered any one of the following: "procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept". Since CL's files are no more than a "recipe" for creating the characters, I highly suspect that CLs' copyright protection claim on those files would be invalidated by the restrictions set upon copyright material. 3D space, IMHO, is non-copyrightable, as people could, by pure happenstance, arrive at the same XYZ coordinates, etc. I believe that it was stated in another thread(s) that file format protection has been successfully challenged in a court of law on many occasions. With CLs' diminished financial stability, current development, and other issues with P5, I highly doubt they would have the resources to put up an adequate fight. All a competitor would have to do is "outlast" CLs' resources (much like a hostile takeover in business) to win that battle, if there are even grounds for a confrontation.