{"id":6179,"date":"2022-10-12T09:08:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stocksy.com\/ideas\/?p=6179"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:23:36","slug":"how-clients-use-your-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stocksy.com\/ideas\/how-clients-use-your-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How do Stocksy clients work with your stock media content?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many new artists tell us they\u2019re interested in selling their work to earn a passive income but have concerns about who can use their content and how. It\u2019s understandable. The possibilities for stock media uses are seemingly limitless. Your work may be used to illustrate a blog article or accompany a magazine ad. It could show up as the cover of a new curated playlist on your favorite music app, you could find it on the back of a bus promoting a local company, or see it looking back at you when standing in line at the bank. Maybe it\u2019s the cover of the next New York Times best seller. It can show up on tv, in print, digital, or in apps in a variety of situations.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n

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It\u2019s an exciting prospect, but we respect that artists want to protect their work and the people featured in it. We do too. We consider the way that people, ideas, and cultures are represented in the collection very thoughtfully. Our content policy<\/a> holds us to that daily. As for client use and how content is licensed \u2014 our collection is royalty free, which means we don’t have complete control over how Stocksy content is used in client projects. But there are rules involved, and we can offer clarity about what royalty free means so our prospective artists know what to expect when thinking about contributing to Stocksy.<\/p>\n\n \n \n <\/div>\n

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Does this mean that once clients pay for content they can do whatever they want? Not exactly. Our Content License Agreement<\/a> is a set of terms clients are expected to follow when they buy Stocksy content. <\/p>\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n

What stock media licenses do clients purchase?<\/h3>\n

The basic royalty free license type is our Standard License, which covers the most common uses. The Standard License allows global use, some print, and unlimited digital impressions for all time. Clients need to buy an extended license (which can include Market Freeze and sensitive use) for additional needs like printing more than 500k physical copies, having multiple people within a company working simultaneously with the content, or selling\/distributing products where the content licensed provides the core value of the product (e.g., postcards, t-shirts, digital wallpapers, etc.) <\/p>\n\n \n \n \n <\/div>\n

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What are the rules for content use?<\/h3>\n

There are also things that clients are not allowed to do with Stocksy content, like:<\/p>\n