RE: Some of the Most Interesting Experiments Carried Out By Psychologists and Scientists #3

The term "royalty free" is confusing. It essentially means that, after buying the right to use the image, you can use it without have to track the usage.

The rights system was set up for things like newspapers and magazines where the publisher would know in advance how many copies would be make. So, if you sold your photo to a magazine, the magazine would pay a royalty based on the circulation of the magazine.

People don't know how many times a page will be viewed on the internet. So, microstock companies created a licence that did not charge royalties which they called a "royalty-free" license. The term only makes sense to a small segment of the market.

This is from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalty-free

In photography and the illustration industry, it refers to a copyright license where the user has the right to use the picture without many restrictions based on one-time payment to the licensor. The user can therefore use the image in several projects without having to purchase any additional licenses.

Anyway, a royalty-free license means you have to pay for a microstock image; however, you don't have to pay royalties for each use of the image. The watermark indicates that a user did not pay for the rights to use the photo.

!hivebits

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irivers (55) 2 years ago

$0.22

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hivebits (53) 2 years ago

$0.00

nevies (67) 2 years ago

Oh, wow, thanks for educating me, I had no idea about this all the while. I'd do better from now on 😎👍

I've got a question, though, using it with the watermark, is that still a breach?