What does the nature scenes licence allow? – Curated Nature Scenes

Nine dollars buys a licence to one photograph. There is no subscription, no credit system, and no extended licence waiting behind the price.

Permitted

Worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, commercial:

• Title cards, key art, posters and end boards for screen work.
• Broadcast and streaming, including stills held on screen, backplates and set extensions.
• Advertising in every medium, at any impression count, in any territory.
• Packaging, print, editorial, books and covers.
• Websites, apps and interfaces.
• Signage, exhibitions and interior installations.
• Client work, where your delivered piece is covered by your licence.

Editing is unrestricted. Crop, grade, retime as a still, composite, matte-paint over it, project it.

Prohibited

• Redistributing the file itself, to anyone, in any form.
• Adding it to another library, marketplace, asset pack, template or theme.
• Print-on-demand where the photograph is the entire product.
• Machine-learning training data.
• Misrepresenting a real, identifiable place or person.

What broadcast use includes

This is the question that brings most people here, so explicitly: there is no separate broadcast rate. A frame used as a title background on a streamed series costs nine dollars, once, and covers every territory and every season the show runs.

Several libraries price screen use as a multiple of print use. This one does not, which is the main reason the catalogue is worth checking before you commission a plate.

Motion

The files are stills. You may pan, scan, push in, parallax and animate a still however you like; the result is a derivative work and it is covered.

What you may not do is distribute the still itself as an asset to a third party, which includes handing the original to a post house that will keep it in a library for other jobs. Post houses should buy their own licences, and at nine dollars that is a rounding error on any production budget.

What you are not buying

Copyright, and exclusivity. If the shot must not appear in a competitor's title sequence, this is the wrong library; read the exclusivity page before you build a look around a specific frame.

Term and territory

Perpetual and worldwide, with no renewal and no account to keep alive. A series licensed today is still licensed when it moves to a different platform in a different country in five years.

That is worth stating because screen licences elsewhere are frequently term-limited, and a title sequence whose background rights expire mid-run is a genuinely expensive problem. Here there is no term to run out, and the PayPal receipt is the whole record.