One problem that I've run across from time to time involves old freestuff -- items that I downloaded years ago. The original content creator(s) have long since disappeared into the ether, so there's no one around to ask for permissions on the use of an item.

Also, I've got a lot of freestuff in my "Free Runtime" that I don't have a clue where the items originally came from. Much less do I have any idea at all of what the old readme's for each item had to say: or even if the free items HAD an included readme in the first place.

So what to do in such cases? Use the item in a render anyway......or simply never use the item in question for any for-commercial renders at all? Could an image uploaded to a subscription site's gallery be considered to be a "commercial use" of an item? I leave the question open: because I'm not a copyright lawyer.

Another issue - once in a while a freestuff creator (or for that matter a commercial product creator) will include highly restrictive EULA's that effectively make an item useless to work with. Whenever this is done with freestuff items: I simply won't use them. Whenever this is done with commercial items: I simply won't buy them.

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