basic & extended licenses

Permitted uses of the basic license and when you may need to purchase an extended license.

What are the extended Licenses?

Extended Licenses allows you expand the scope of permissible uses.

The basic image license allows you to:

illustrate and design websites
illustrate books, book covers, CD covers, album covers
illustrate newsletters, magazine articles and covers
create advertising posters, postcards, brochures, newsletters, flyers, and any other promotional material of this type
create posters for social or humanitarian campaigns
create company PowerPoint presentations
create commercials, film, and video presentation
create tradeshow signage
create product packaging or wrappings for different products
use within a business card design as long as it comprises a smaller portion of the card design and is is not being re-sold
personal use to decorate you home or office
personal use to create unique interior designs
personal use to print a poster, postcard, etc. This is OK because the photo is not being re-sold or distributed
other personal and non-commercial purposes

You cannot use the basic license to:
(unless the Extended License is purchased)

create postcards, posters, calendars, greeting cards that will be redistributed or resold
create t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, hats, mouse pads, or any other product of this type that will be resold or redistributed
create logos, trademarks or service mark
use it to create your own art from it that you will resell or redistributed
create web templates, web page builders, e-cards, screensavers that you will sell or redistribute
create colouring books that you will sell or redistribute
use it in any other essential manner in a product that will be resold or redistributed
create art prints that are resold or redistributed
surpass 500 000 copies of the same image
Products where the image is a main definitive part of your distributed product. "Definitive" means it is a main, important part of why someone would want your product