Personal Use License
Personal use is any use that meets none of the criteria for commercial use. Personal, or non-commercial, use is a use for solely personal purposes.
- The use must not involve an exchange of money.
- The use must not promote a business entity (this includes non-profit organizations).
- The use must not directly or indirectly result in financial gain.
What is not allowed by the personal license?
- Commercial Use
- Create digital or print publications for commercial use, such as, but not limited to, cards, invitations, photo albums, scrapbooks, ebooks, and e-publications.
- Create physical end products for commercial use, for resale or wholesale, such as, but not limited to: clothing, cards, invitations, stickers, etc.
- Create product packaging for commercial use, such as, but not limited to, labels, stickers, containers, etc., for any number of separate end products.
- Create digital products for commercial use, such as, but not limited to, static designs, static website elements, etc.
- Use in physical (printed, paid, or unpaid) advertising, such as billboards, signage, printed advertisements, etc.
- Use in-demand applications, like print-on-demand and create-on-demand services, even for non-commercial use.
- Use in software development, such as website software development, mobile app development, desktop application development, or video game development.
- Create digital products for commercial use.
- Part of a trademark, service mark, design mark, trade name, business name, logo, or similar use.
- Claim the licensed asset itself as its own copyrighted work.
- A trademark is an end product.
- Copyright is a licensed asset.
