What license to choose for image use in free ebook (no profit)

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Hello!

I am pretty new to Adobe Stock so i have a few questions.

We are trying to create an ebook for educational purposes. It will be available for free to download for anyone around the world. We expect great number of people to download it. But we will gain no profit from it in any way.

We use a lot of our own photos and artworks but for some places we would like to use Adobe Stock images. These AS photos would be added to the book pages to illustrate what the text is about on the page. We would like to use around 20-50 images in total in the book that has more than 100 pages (most times these photos would be placed in small size next to a text, rarely would it be bigger).

My questions are the following:

Which license should i use in this case? (ebook with probably many readers but its free so we gain no profit from it)
How to credit? (we credit all our photos at the end of the book in a Credit page, is that okay in this case?)
Can I make minimal adjustments to photos? Such as removing the background from an animal image so only the animal is visible with transparent background. (or make a gradient so the photo blends into the white background of the page, so it won't have sharp edges etc.)

Thank you so much in advance!

Greetings,

Eliza

Abambo · Answer

There is no difference between for profit and not for profit use. For books, the print run is important and the importance of the assets is important. If the assets are the primary value to buy (download) your book, or if the print run is more than 500k (one download=one print) you will need an extended licence, else a standard licence is enough.

You credit where you credit other people. In the licencing terms is written that you need to credit at an appropriate place. This means that it is quite flexible.

The aim of stock is to licence assets and to modify them to your needs.

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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