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nathanir
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February 25, 2025
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Using Stock Images from other sites - What to do about model release

  • February 25, 2025
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I downloaded a picture of a child sitting in the back of the car with a seatbelt from another stock site. I then created a video on car seatbelt safety using that picture and another where the boy wasn't wearing the seatbelt correctly. I wanted to highlight the correct and the wrong ways of wearing the seatbelts. When submitting, Adobe wanted model releases. All I have is a license of the other site granting me full access. Will that do? Or should I get AI to generate a similar image and label it AI-generated?

 

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Abambo
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AbamboCommunity Expert
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February 25, 2025

You can't submit a picture where you do not have the full rights. You are lucky that you got asked the model release. If you had succeeded in publishing the picture, you would have done a huge copyright violation, which would have resulted in a permanent ban.

 

@nathanir wrote:

 Or should I get AI to generate a similar image and label it AI-generated?

 

No issue with that, as long as the original picture is not used as a source.

 

You could also take a picture of a child where you do have no issue getting the release. If you take the picture, and you get the release, the picture is yours to use.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
    Jill_C
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    Jill_CCommunity Expert
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    February 25, 2025

    Read the Contributor Agreement. You cannot submit content to Adobe for which you do not have the sole rights of ownership, which means you can't use someone else's stock images to create your own stock content. 

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      nathanirAuthor
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      February 25, 2025

      OK, thanks. I can use it to create the video for my own social media channels, but I can't use it as a stock video. Sure, it makes sense.

        Jill_C
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        Jill_CCommunity Expert
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        February 25, 2025

        That's correct. The Adobe Stock license terms indicate that you can't use a stock image where the main value of a product which you are offering for sale is that stock image. I assume that other stock agencies have a similar clause.

        Jill C., Forum Volunteer
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