Stock Photo Licensing (Advertising merchandise with standard license)

Question

We are looking to sell prints using adobe stock photos but we are curious about the licensing. We will purchase the extended license once we have sold a print - but we wanted to hold off on actually getting that license until a print is sold. Can we advertise to sell the print with the standard license until we sell it - and at that point we would buy the extended license.

Abambo · Answer

I do not read anything in the licensing terms that will speak here against. As long as you use an extended licence for the first print… You should, however, make sure not to “distribute” the original assets at the original size.

There are 2 problems with this, however:

The asset could be deleted from the database by the time you do your sale. That may happen occasionally, and there will be no possibility to buy an extended licence if that happens.
The asset may enter the free collection. Free collections are not available for extended licences (currently).

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).

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