I know this might open up a huge debate, but a recent posting regarding Maz's Objaction Mover and Zygote Models got me thinking. Since we did not create the geometries we use when we make a character or article of clothing, do we own the rights to it. For example, I tell people they can't use my female cop professionally unless they get my permission along with all of the artists who made the parts I used for her. But when you get down to it, yeah I did work, but I didn't create the geometry for the body. I only built on a copyrighted figure owned by another company. Am I protected by copyright? Do I even own the rights to that figure? Since we can't give it away to people without the original object geometry, I have to wonder. I am pretty sure that you can have a copywrite on TV script you submit for an already existing show (i.e. building on other peoples already existing stories) to protect yourself. But again, you can't sell that story to another show and have them use the same characters since you don't own them. By that logic it seems that to some degree, we own what we've made even if we are bulding off of zygotes models. So what's the deal. If someone uses my character for compensation without my consent, am I protected? Thanks Aharon