Subject to the Prohibited Uses (see below), the Content License allows users to:
▶Use Content for free
▶Use Content without having to attribute the author (although giving credit is always appreciated by our community!)
▶Modify or adapt Content into new works
What are you not allowed to do with Content?
We refer to these as Prohibited Uses which include:
▶You cannot sell or distribute Content (either in digital or physical form) on a Standalone basis. Standalone means where no creative effort has been applied to the Content and it remains in substantially the same form as it exists on our website.
▶If Content contains any recognisable trademarks, logos or brands, you cannot use that Content for commercial purposes in relation to goods and services. In particular, you cannot print that Content on merchandise or other physical products for sale.
▶You cannot use Content in any immoral or illegal way, especially Content which features recognisable people.
▶You cannot use Content in a misleading or deceptive way.
StockSnap's CC0 License The right images are so important on the web. They can really mean the difference between blah and buzzworthy pages, ads, sites, and more. However, finding the right image for your work is just the beginning. You also need to make sure you have permission to use that image the way you need to - and that's where it can get tricky.
Here at StockSnap, we want to make it as easy and simple as possible for you to find, share, and use amazing photographic imagery for all your creative projects.
Whether you're crafting a personal blog to explore your passions or building a complex corporate site for your business, you know you'll need striking, beautiful, on-point images. And ideally, you'll need the freedom to copy, edit, modify, and distribute those images in a variety of formats and purposes - including business-related ones.
That's why every single image on StockSnap are governed exclusively by the generous terms of the Creative Commons CC0 license.
Creative Commons vs. Traditional Copyright Licenses Image creators and publishers alike need flexibility when dealing with image files. Yet traditional copyright law requires a fairly technical, precise, and (some say) overly complicated approach.
It's an approach that often requires lengthy negotiations and even the expense of a lawyer's services - and that's just for the preliminary agreement. If the creator and the publisher develop a conflict, resolving it can mean extremely costly litigation or arbitration.
Creative Commons licenses are a much better and simpler way for image photographers and creators to assign specific rights and restrictions to their work and ultimately to those who download and use their image files.
The Creative Commons CC0 License The Creative Commons license that StockSnap uses is the CC0 license. Specifically, that license means you can do any and all of the following:
Download the image file Publish, revise, copy, alter, and share that image Use the image (as-is or as you've altered it), in both personal and commercial contexts Moreover, you can put StockSnap CC0 images to any of these usages without buying the right to do it, acquiring written permission from the image's creator, or attributing the work to the image creator.
In other words, there's no fee to download or use these StockSnap images in accordance with the CC0 license. They're free to download, free to edit, and free to use - even in a commercial project!
You don't even need to attribute the image to the creator, the way you do with other CC or traditional copyright licensing schemes. (However, even though it's not required, we here at StockSnap do encourage you to include an appropriate attribution. It's a nice thing to do.)
Morguefile is a free photo archive “for creatives, by creatives.” Founded by Michael Connors in the early Internet days of 1996, the site was created to serve as a free image exchange for creative professionals and teachers to use in their work. This same mission remains true today: we are a community-based free photo site, and all photos found in the Morguefile archive are free for you to download and re-use in your work, be it commercial or not. The photos have been contributed by a wide range of creatives from around the world, ranging from amateur photo hobbyists to professionals.
