Hum, Wouldn't the sheer act of distrubuting a model as a "Freebie" sort of make one assume it's to be used in a piece of ARTWORK? I mean I can understand a creator "requesting" that it not be used for commercial purposes without concent, particularly in the case of some one offering a "Freebie" created in the image of something copyrighted such as the ed 209, from the 'Robocop' movies, but by offering it for Free on an open community such as the internet, well it seem evident to me it's beuing offered for use.

IF the readme included iwth it (if it even had one( REQUESTED that the artist be notified of it's use then it's only polite to try. But there is no other obligation. If your so f**kin anal as to think you can sue over something YOU offered for FREE then don;t put it out there. I'd like to see the court records of such a law suit. 

Commercial works are something else, however all that I sell contain the provision for the purchaser to use RENDERS of the models in thier art. Distribution of the models themselves are another thing altogether, except for items in the case where I sell the copyright outright, in which case the purchser may do whatever they want with them, sell them, give them away as christmas presents whatever, no longer my business.

mike