"Because the "poses" in Poser are dial turnings. Inherant to the software. And can't be transfered to any other software as a poseable function, only as static props. Thats the data involved and the use of the data." I can open the pose files up in any data editor, I can read them into any program I wish to create and use the data, even another program that does some sort of "posing" and can use the data contained therein to do said posing. That some other application initially created them has no bearing on this - the end result is simply a file full of data. The file format may be (and that is specious itself) subject to copyright. The data is not copyrightable as an extension of the program copyright or determination of the makers of the program that created it regardless of how it was created. That is indeed the jurisdiction of your locale's copyright law and judicial system - not the software company.