Question Regarding Commercial Use Of Programme

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This is a bit of a weird enquiry, but my question is simply regarding the commercial use of After Effects. 

I am a small-time freelance video editor, and would like to confirm if my personal license for AE is sufficient for this use? I mainly use the programme for small projects, social meda ads etc, and don't have access to any other Adobe programs. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[thepixelsmith]

If you are paying for AE or any CC subscription or just about any program for that matter you can use that software for commercial purposes. 

Now that being said, since you license software and don't in fact own it (at least that is how it works in the US where I am) you are bound by the license agreement. Adobe's doesen't but some academic licenses may prohibit commercial use, and if you have the software under some type of limited license there may be other conditions of use as well.

[Mylenium]

You pay for it, so you are allowed to use it for whatever you fancy. AE is in the traditional sense just a tool, a means to an end. A carpenter wouldn't assume there are extended licensing problems on his favorite hammer. 😉 The only caveat may be using some of the default content such as stock images from demo projects or certain fonts, but that's a whole other discussion.

Mylenium

[thepixelsmith]

This isn't true at all, at least not in the US. 

Unlike a carpenter who does own his/her own hammer we don't actually own the software we use, we license it.  So we are bound by the terms of the license agreement.

For example at one point, Adobe's academic license prohibited the software from being used for commercial puurposes.