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Personal use means non-commercial use of the Media for display on personal websites and computers, or making image prints or video copies for personal use.

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Earn up to 40% commission each time our customers download your images or videos. When you sell more, you earn more. Your earnings rate increases as more of your content is licensed. Earn $0.04 on images and 10% on videos when an artist signs up with your link and their work is downloaded.

Image licensing refers to the practice of selling a licence to use your image in a specific way, rather than selling your photo outright to a buyer. It is the industry-standard method for selling photos for editorial, commercial and advertising use, as well as wall art in the form of a personal licence.

Shutterstock is a leading stock image source and a lot of content creators worldwide use it for their creations. Generally images with people sell well on shutterstock but having said that there is no specific pattern. I would say if your image fulfills below checks you can be assured it will sell well.

If you sell a photograph of copyrighted material, the owner of that copyright may sue you for infringement. The main response in these situations is that the photo falls within the definition of fair use. There is no clear line separating fair use from infringing uses, but courts consider four factors.

Here's our handy 5+1 guide for checking image copyright: Look for an image credit or contact details. Look for a watermark. Check the image's metadata. Do a Google reverse image search. Search the U.S. Copyright Office Database. +1. If in doubt, don't use it.