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maxineh79041630
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June 15, 2022
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Adobe Stock licensing

  • June 15, 2022
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Our agency currently has a plan for Adobe Stock – 750 assets a month. We are creating a specialist military pocket diary for a client and he is having 500 copies printed to sell to his customers. The diary has about 10-15% intro pages that contain historical military information and our client would like us to use some standard Adobe Stock images to complement this information. Is this allowed under our license? Do we have to include a credit for each image? And, with our current plan can we also include some 'editorial only' images if they relate to the historical events in the text?

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Abambo
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June 15, 2022

Please look into the licensing terms and if you do not find the answers, then I suggest, you ask a lawyer specialized in licensing. Editorial images can't be used in a commercial context. Look here for more information on licensing: https://community.adobe.com/t5/stock/links-for-licensing-terms/td-p/11366788
(Disclaimer: As always with licensing, this is my interpretation of the rules. I think they are correct and advice is based on reading and interpreting the licence terms and on fair use for both the buyer and the artist/stock company, but I cannot rule out that my interpretation is wrong. I'm not an Adobe employee).

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Legend
June 20, 2022

Is "commercial context" the deciding factor for editorial? For example a newspaper is a commercial product, but it surely could use editorial imagery...? Meanwhile, if I was making a picture book to give away free, I don't get to use editorial. (I am not a lawyer)