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Hello, DAZ is concerned about the issues of copyright infringement, especially copyright laws dealing with texture maps. Copyright infringement occurs with texture maps when an artist paints over DAZ maps. It is illegal to do this and to distribute the copied model. DAZ officially encourages artists to make things for Michael and Victoria. However, DAZ must protect and enforce their intellectual property if we are to retain our copyright license to our models. We would hope that as a community of artists that everyone would understand this concern. An artist may not modify a map and claim it as their own work, an artist must start from his own original work. It poses a problem when other artists use this pirated model. DAZ would ask that you as artists be very careful who's work you are using. Even if you are not intentionally violating copyright, the person who's work you are using may be, and you are still in violation of DAZ Copyright Laws. We have recently have had BIG problems with uninformed artists. We have appreciated the cooperation thus showed to DAZ from artists that have used pirated work and thank them for their honesty and help in this matter. We also appreciate the help and assistance by the community in making DAZ aware of these infringements to DAZ's Copyright Laws. So we would warn anyone that has based work off a pirated map as well as the Odyssey map, please review it and make sure you are not using parts of Victoria 1 map or any other artists work. Below (next post) are side by side comparisons of DAZ's Victoria 1, on the left, and Odyssey on the right. The Victoria 1 map has been reduced in resolution so that it will be unusable if taken from this post. We do want to post this to show people that DAZ is not attacking other artists but protecting our own proprietary property. After viewing the Victoria 1 vs. Odyssey it was obvious to DAZ that they are the same map with a few color changes and smudges made. Details that DAZ worked hard to make are the same on both maps. This pattern continues over the whole map. For further information on DAZ's copyright policy link here, http://www.daz3d.com/pages/faq/answers/license/licenseagreement.html Thanks, AnneMarie White DAZ Productions www.daz3d.com