How does image licensing work?

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In image banks, images are licensed for use by the author of the photograph, which allows the use of the material for commercial purposes as well.

This license means that the user will pay for the image only once and then can use it as many times as they want.


When making a production available on the Internet (whether it is text, video, photography, etc.) it is necessary to define the license of use and consider what the public will be able to do with the content.

In this case, the author must define whether the production can be reproduced, distributed, transformed belarus mobile database , among other uses, commercially or not.

The Creative Commons license (very common on Flickr, for example) is basically an agreement between the author of the photograph and the person who intends to use the material.

As a temporary transfer of rights, there are various appropriations that the author releases in his work such as:

Possibility to distribute, adapt and create from the work, even for commercial purposes, as long as they own the image credits;
Possibility of distributing the work, even for commercial purposes, as long as they own the credits for the image and it is not modified;
The possibility of distributing, adapting and creating from the work as long as you own the image credits and it is not used for commercial purposes;
Inter alia.
This license enables an alternative to copyright (all rights reserved), offering more adaptations in the use of the works by the creators and the public that uses them.

Some image banks have their own particularities. However, knowing these details about the license for using images, it is possible to understand how copyright generally works when selling photos to image banks.