I love the fonts by Bright Ideas, but none of the fonts are marked as to what they are allowed to be used, such as "for personal use only" etc... and the ones that I've downloaded don't have any licensing included. I see that people have left comments a year ago asking about licensing and still have not had a reply. How else can I contact the author or get licensing information?

This is why I think dafont should have to show the license of the font.

It's very possible that someone other than Bright Ideas may have submitted the Bright Ideas fonts to Dafont. That would explain why there are no designer details nor licensing terms shown.

Could be possible. Bright Ideas could have kicked the bucket YEARS ago

No, Bright Eyes is Charleton Heston/ Taylor in Planet of the Apes, (1968). He won't die until the Earth explodes in Beneath the Planet of the Apes, almost two thousand years from now.