Usage rights for Standard License
I want to start using stock images for my artworks and am thinking of signing up to Adobe stock. I chatted to someone on the help chat who said you couldn't modify standard license images, but then the T&Cs for Standard License say
"you may not incorporate a Work into merchandise intended for sale or distribution [...] unless (a) the Work has been modified to the extent that the new work, as incorporated into such merchandise, is not substantially similar to the Work and can qualify as an original work of authorship; or (b) the primary value of such merchandise does not lie with the Work itself". (Section 3.B.2)
And well, now I'm confused.
I want to put the images into my digital collages and try to seel those collages as prints and maybe other things for the home like wall decals or maybe wallpaper if it goes well. So say take a stock image of a cow, but put it into a landscape made up of maybe 40 photos where the cow is a bit of it.
My questions -
Can I modify standard license images? To incorporate into a larger digital collage?
Are there any other guidelines for defining "not substantially similar to the Work and can qualify as an original work of authorship"?
Apart from the 500 000 views, are there any restrictions on what for products I can put that digital collage artwork on?
How much do I need to modify the stock image? Say I use one that is cut out on a white ground, is having it as an image in a larger collage, with some adjustments to lighting enough?
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