I'm not trying to stir any pots here... just wondeering how others manage a perceived problem.

Every once and a while I see a freebee that I could use, but I don't download it. Why? Because it says "For non-commercial use only." 

My concern is this: I see no practical method of keeping track of what is fully licensed and what is not, and the definition of "commercial use" could be anything from selling a poster made with the item to simply putting the render on a site that required paid registration.

How do the rest of you guys keep track of what to use when? Am I the only one with this concern?

P.S. The same goes for items that requite that credit be given. How in the world do you keep up with who made what? I do well to simply find what I need in my runtime, muchless who made it.

I use Content Catalog (formerly Poser Download Tracker) to keep track of things.  That way I can track what needs to be credited and what is non-commercial use.  I know some people will organize their runtimes so they have a separate runtime for non-commercial items and the like.

You could also create a seperate runtime, and I use doPDF (Free) and make a snapshot of the page I got it from and place that in the readme of the runtime that these are kept in.  

I try to add the name of the creator to the item folder in content manager (DS) for who made it..as for non commercial stuff...I just don't download them..sooner or later someone will make another one that you can use.  :biggrin:

Well, I just wondered how eveyrone else did it. I'm with you, AnnieD. I don't download them and therefore there's no problem! 

Quote - Well, I just wondered how eveyrone else did it. I'm with you, AnnieD. I don't download them and therefore there's no problem! 

Right...it isn't that I make lots of money commercially on my art...but it would be my luck the one time I had a lucrative offer...... you know the rest...lol
So I just avoid using them now.

I wish that people who created items with a commercial usage restriction would put their license in something other than a "license.txt" that will certainly be overwritten by the next thing to be installed.

That being said, it's still close to impossible to keep track of things, so I generally don't download stuff with a commercial usage restriction, except by accident.

I don't know why creators bother with the restriction. It's not as though Disney is going to come along and take their freebie V4 latex boots and make a $billion with them.

If the primary purpose of most freebie distributors is to introduce their products to the market, then it seems by eliminating the commercial use market, they're cutting out the people with the biggest budgets. But oh well. It's their choice. I just don't have any use for restricted items.