Is this a familiar horror story? You have an outfit in mind. You scour Renderosity, Daz, PPro's, etc. Nada. Then - by chance - someone posts a link here to a site with the perfect item. Wonderful! Your fingers drum on the desk as the download crawls by. But in the readme are the dreaded words, "commercial use requires permission". Okay, you send an e-mail. Which bounces. You check the readme. "(c) MegaArtistMan 2001". You look in Renderosity, and find that MegaArtistMan, from Singapore, hasn't posted for years. His homepage is now disused. Unless you fancy hiring an international private detective, MegaArtistMan has left the planet. But you just know, in those dark late-night moments - and being Poser addicts, we have lots of late-night moments - that when your five-minute animated short is aired on Singapore TV, MegaArtistMan will be watching, sitting on the couch with his best college buddy, MegaHotshotCopyrightLawyerMan. A million to one chance, true. But as Terry Pratchett once remarked, million to one chances happen nine times out of ten. I won't knowingly use a non-commercial piece in any work I think might sell for money. Legally, you are breaking a contract, and it's not worth the risk. All the same, this means that content providers risk having their work passed over and discarded, because of its non-commercial tag. My advice is - make the work free for all uses. If you're not yet making a living off your work, it's more important that it get exposure. The chances that George Lucas will use it to make his next hundred million while you can't afford food for the cat, are pretty damn small.