Commercial license

Royalty-Free license allowing you to use assets in as many projects
as you like with no expiration dates

ID 935777

Licenses that match how you use our design resources

Personal License

Royalty-Free personal license. Use for personal projects, social media, and non commercial activities.

  • Personal blogging, websites and social media.
  • Home printing, art and craft projects, personal portfolios and gifts.
  • The personal use license is not suitable for commercial activities.

Business License

Royalty-Free business license. Use anywhere in the world for unlimited projects with no expiration dates.

  • Print and digital advertising, broadcasts, product packaging, presentations, websites and blogs.
  • One user per license.
  • You can't re-sell or re-distribute rawpixel content.
  • You can't use rawpixel content for prints or other merchandise without adding considerable artistic value.

Public Domain License

Our public domain collection is available to everyone with a CC0 license.

Free for personal and comercial use with no attribution required

We are careful to only make available content that we believe is out of copyright. However, it is your responsibility to ensure it is ok to use in your country, suitable for your application and does not infringe any rights.

Visit the official CC0 license page to learn more about the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.

Editorial

Content labeled "Editorial Use Only" are for use in news and events-related articles, non-commercial blogs and websites, broadcasts and other non-profit media. This content cannot be used for commercial purposes including advertising, promotions and merchandising.

Editorial content should not be edited or altered substantially from the original image.


Personal usage licence

IMPORTANT: This Personal Licence is only granted for non-Watermarked Images/designs downloaded from rawpixel.com.

This Personal Licence is granted to personal members with a:
  • Free Membership Plan for use with ALL Images from our Free Image Collection;
  • Creative Membership plan or a Lifetime Membership plan for use with ALL images from our Free and Premium Image Collections.
Note, if you have a Free or Business Membership Plan this license is not granted for use with images from our Premium Image Collection. Business/Lifetime Plan Members may use images from our Free and Premium Image Collections with our Business Licence.

1.   Our straightforward Personal Licence

For every image you download, we grant you a personal use licence for a single user which is non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable. It apples throughout the word and is subject to the standards and restrictions set out below. This license only permits you to use Our Images for your own personal use, you MUST not use them for any business or commercial purpose, including in connection with any business, profession, organisation or trade.

2.   What you can do

You can:
  • 2.1.   put the Images on your own personal website and use in your personal blog or social media (provided these relate to non-commercial/business activities)
  • 2.2.   add your own designs or captions (Your Content) to the Images and reproduce those combinations of Images and Your Content for your personal use
  • 2.3.   use the images/designs for your personal art/design portfolio as long as you do not claim them as your own work.
  • 2.4.   use the images as educational research and inspiration
  • 2.5.   use the images/designs when creating personal posters, card and invites, such as birthday cards and wedding invitations, as long as you are not sharing these designs with other people.
  • 2.6.   share the Images with others through our social media share links, your unique referral link or other links to our Website (Links)
  • 2.7.   print the Images on paper, canvas, clothing or objects for your personal use or as a personal gift to a friend as long as your friend is not paying you for the item. You must not give digital copies of the images/designs to others.
  • 2.8.   credit us (or for Public Domain and Contributor Images, the named photographer/artist) as owners/source of the Images provided you do not imply any endorsement by us of your use of our Images. This is not mandatory, but we love it when we are credited.

3.   What you cannot do

You cannot:
  • 3.1.   use the images/designs or parts of the images/designs for any business or commercial purpose, including in connection with any business, organisation, profession or trade.
  • 3.2.   claim that you own the intellectual property rights in any Images or attribute the ownership or origin of our Images to anyone else other than us/the named photographer/artist
  • 3.3.   sell or re-distribute any Images (or copies of Images in any format)
  • 3.4.   share any Images with others except through Links (as specified in clause 2.6 above)
  • 3.5.   add any Images to any image stock site except through a Link to the image on rawpixel.com (see clause 2.6 above)
  • 3.6.   make Images available (i.e., share, sell, distribute, transfer or provide access to them) as standalone work (separate from any other material or product) in a format capable of enabling others to reproduce such Images as a standalone work.
  • 3.7.   include the images/designs on any products or merchandise for sale or distribution to others, including in print on demand items.

4.   You cannot use our images in any ways that do not meet our basic Standards:

You must not use our images in connection with any communication, document or material which:
  • is defamatory of any person, obscene, blasphemous, offensive, hateful, inflammatory, or promotes or uses violent or sexually explicit material or pornography,
  • promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age,
  • infringes any copyright, design right, database right or trademark of any other person, or breaches any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence,
  • promotes any illegal activity or advocates, promotes, incites any person to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act, or is in contempt of court, or is likely to deceive any person,
  • may be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety or is likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.

5.   Using images with people in them

You must not use any images with people in them in a way that a reasonable person may find harmful or offensive, including, but not limited to, in connection with pornography or prostitution, or for the promotion of any political or opinion based party, movement, cause, or candidate, or in a way which suggests that they are suffering from any physical or mental ailment, or in connection with immoral or criminal activities. You must not use these images in any way that implies an endorsement of you, your views, opinions or associations, or any other person, or any product or service, by the person or people in the image.
If you wish to use an image to convey a sensitive issue listed above we may be able to provide you with specific permission for this. You must send the details of the image and your intended use to us at contact@rawpixel.com. If we are happy with your intended use we will confirm this to you in writing.
Model Released Images
Except for images marked as “Editorial Use only”, “AI Generated” and Public Domain Images, we have model releases for the majority of images which give you permission to use the image in accordance with this Personal Licence. We clearly indicate on the image page if we hold a model release for the image, so make sure you check this. We are not able to list all of the model releases we hold for an image on our website, so if there is more than one person in an image you should always contact us for further information on the model releases we hold for the image. Just email contact@rawpixel.com.

6.   Using images with products or brands in them

Some of our images contain images of products where the branding of these products is owned by someone other than us. You must not use these images in any way that implies an endorsement of you, your views, opinions or associations, or any other person, or any product or service, by the owners of such branded products.
Property released images
Where we have included someone else's property within an image and we deem the permission of the owner of the property is required we will have secured a property release for this (except for images marked as “Editorial Use only” and Public Domain Images). If we hold a property release for an image, it is clearly shown on the image page. It is not possible for us to list all of the property that we have a property release for on our website, so if there is more than one item in an image that may be the property of someone else you must contact us for further information on the property releases we hold for the image. Just email contact@rawpixel.com.

7.   Public Domain Images

You may use images labelled as ‘Free Public Domain CC0 Image’ with the CC0 licence and images labelled as ‘Free Public Domain U.S. Government Image’ in accordance with the U.S. Government rules.
Whilst we have only selected Public Domain Images that we believe are suitable for the majority of people to use, and have used our judgement to label images only suitable for editorial use, it is your responsibility to check that your use of the image is lawful. We do not warrant that your use of Public Domain Images will be lawful and if you want to use any Public Domain Images you do so at your own risk.
More information about our Public Domain Images is included in our User Terms.

9.   Intellectual Property Rights

The majority of our images have been created by us and we (rawpixel) own the intellectual property rights in them. There are a small number of images that have been created by other photographers or artists who have given us permission to distribute them on rawpixel.com. These third parties own the Intellectual Property in these Contributor images and have granted us a licence to offer these to Members with either the rawpixel licence or the Creative Commons 0 licence. You will find the name of the photographer and the copyright owner of all images on the image page along with information on which licence applies.
Subject to section 6 (Branded Products), section 7 (Public Domain Images) and section 8 (AI Generated Images) we warrant to the best of our knowledge and belief that:
  • we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in our images and that your use of such images in accordance with this Personal Licence is lawful,
  • our images do not incorporate material which infringes the intellectual property rights or privacy rights of anyone else,
  • our images do not contain obscene, blasphemous or defamatory matter.
We have no liability for any use of our images which breaches the terms of this Licence.

10.   How long does our Personal License last?

You can continue to use images you have downloaded with your Free, Creative or Lifetime Membership plan indefinitely as long as your use meets our User Terms and this Personal Licence.
Your rights to download new images under this Personal Licence will continue until either you or we cancel your Free Membership Plan (for Free Images) or Creative/Lifetime Membership Plan (for Premium Images). See our User Terms for more information on how your Membership Plan may be terminated.

Business usage licence

IMPORTANT: This Business Licence is only granted for non-Watermarked Images/designs downloaded from rawpixel.com.

This Business Licence is granted to business members with a:
  • Free Membership Plan for use with ALL Images from our Free Image Collection;
  • Business Membership plan or a Lifetime Membership plan for use with ALL images from our Free and Premium Image Collections.
Note, if you have a Free or Creative Membership Plan this license is not granted for use with images from our Premium Image Collection. Creative Plan Members may use images from our Free and Premium Image Collections with our Personal Licence.

1.   Our straightforward Business Licence

For every image you download, we grant you a commercial licence for a single user which is non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable. It applies throughout the world and is subject to the standards and restrictions set out below.

2.   Our Business Licence is available to business members with our Free, Business and Lifetime Membership Plans.

This Business Licence is available for all business members for use with all images from our Free Image Collection and for Business/Lifetime Members for use with our Premium Images.

3.   Permitted use

With our Business Licence you can use our images for any business purpose as long as you are not selling or redistributing our images and your use complies with our Standards (see section 5 below) and other restrictions below.
For example, you can:
  • put the images on your business websites and use them in your business blogs, social media and adverts. We allow unlimited web views.
  • add your branding, logo, text and captions to the images and reproduce these new designs in brochures, flyers and adverts to promote your business.
  • print the images in your documents, magazines, packaging and promotional materials. We allow unlimited print run size.

What you cannot do

  • You cannot sell, re-distribute or share our images or copies of our images for others to use.
    This also means you must not add our images to any image gallery, stock image site or template where users are able to access our images or incorporate them into new designs.
  • You must not make our images available in a format that allows others to access or reproduce them.
    We do allow you to create individual items on behalf of a client, but you must only share your final item with your client, not our standalone image files. If your client requires our image file for future projects they must have their own membership account or be included as an additional seat/user on your membership plan.
  • You must not claim that our images are your own work.
    This means you must not claim that you own the intellectual property rights in any images or attribute the ownership or origin of our images to anyone other than us/the artist named on the image page.
  • You must not use images marked as “Editorial Use only” for any commercial purpose.
    If an image is marked as “Editorial Use Only” it means we may not have written permission from the people in the image or owners of property in the image for the image to be used for commercial purposes. These images must only be used for editorial purposes. This means you are only allowed to use them in a newspaper, magazine article, blog or website for descriptive purposes (i.e. to illustrate a location, news event or point of public interest). Editorial images must not be used in any other products or merchandise or to promote any product or service.
  • You can’t use our images for prints or merchandise for sale without adding considerable artistic value. This means you can only include our images in merchandise for sale if they have been significantly changed to such a degree that they constitute new works.

4.   You cannot use our images in any ways that do not meet our basic Standards:

You must not use our images in connection with any communication, document or material which:
  • is defamatory of any person, obscene, blasphemous, offensive, hateful, inflammatory, or promotes or uses violent or sexually explicit material or pornography,
  • promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age,
  • infringes any copyright, design right, database right or trademark of any other person, or breaches any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence,
  • promotes any illegal activity or advocates, promotes, incites any person to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act, or is in contempt of court, or is likely to deceive any person,
  • may be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety or is likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.

5.   Using images with people in them

You must not use any images with people in them in a way that a reasonable person may find harmful or offensive, including, but not limited to, in connection with pornography or prostitution, or for the promotion of any political or opinion based party, movement, cause, or candidate, or in a way which suggests that they are suffering from any physical or mental ailment, or in connection with immoral or criminal activities. You must not use these images in any way that implies an endorsement of you, your views, opinions or associations, or any other person, or any product or service, by the person or people in the image.
If you wish to use an image to convey a sensitive issue listed above we may be able to provide you with specific permission for this. You must send the details of the image and your intended use to us at contact@rawpixel.com. If we are happy with your intended use we will confirm this to you in writing.
Model Released Images
Except for images marked as “Editorial Use only”, “AI Generated” and Public Domain Images, we have model releases for the majority of images which give you permission to use the image in accordance with this Business Licence. We clearly indicate on the image page if we hold a model release for the image, so make sure you check this. We are not able to list all of the model releases we hold for an image on our website, so if there is more than one person in an image you should always contact us for further information on the model releases we hold for the image. Just email contact@rawpixel.com.

6.   Using images with products or brands in them

Some of our images contain images of products where the branding of these products is owned by someone other than us. You must not use these images in any way that implies an endorsement of you, your views, opinions or associations, or any other person, or any product or service, by the owners of such branded products.
Property released images
Where we have included someone else's property within an image and we deem the permission of the owner of the property is required we will have secured a property release for this (except for images marked as “Editorial Use only” and Public Domain Images). If we hold a property release for an image, it is clearly shown on the image page. It is not possible for us to list all of the property that we have a property release for on our website, so if there is more than one item in an image that may be the property of someone else you must contact us for further information on the property releases we hold for the image. Just email contact@rawpixel.com.

7.   Public Domain Images

You may use images labelled as ‘Free Public Domain CC0 Image’ with the CC0 license and images labelled as ‘Free Public Domain U.S. Government Image’ in accordance with the U.S. Government rules.
Whilst we have only selected Public Domain Images that we believe are suitable for the majority of people to use, and have used our judgement to label images only suitable for editorial use, it is your responsibility to check that your use of the image is lawful. We do not warrant that your use of Public Domain Images will be lawful and if you want to use any Public Domain Images you do so at your own risk.
More information about our Public Domain Images is included in our User Terms.

9.   Intellectual Property Rights

The majority of our images have been created by us and we (rawpixel) own the intellectual property rights in them. There are a small number of images that have been created by other photographers or artists who have given us permission to distribute them on rawpixel.com. These third parties own the Intellectual Property in these Contributor images and have granted us a licence to offer these to Members with either the rawpixel licence or the Creative Commons 0 licence. You will find the name of the photographer and the copyright owner of all images on the image page along with information on which license applies.
Subject to section 6 (Branded Products), section 7 (Public Domain Images) and section 8 (AI Generated Images) we warrant to the best of our knowledge and belief that:
  • we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in our images and that your use of such images in accordance with this Business Licence is lawful,
  • our images do not incorporate material which infringes the intellectual property rights or privacy rights of anyone else,
  • our images do not contain obscene, blasphemous or defamatory matter.
We have no liability for any use of our images which breaches the terms of this Licence.

10.   How long does our Business Licence last?

You can continue to use images you have downloaded with your Free, Business or Lifetime Membership plan indefinitely as long as your use meets our User Terms and this Business Licence.
Your rights to download new images under this Business Licence will continue until either you or we cancel your Free Membership Plan (for Free Images) or Business/Lifetime Membership Plan (for Premium Images). See our User Terms for more information on how your Membership Plan may be terminated.