• All licenses are royalty-free in perpetuity—you’ll never have to pay royalty fees to keep your license.
• Unlimited projects—there’s no need to track how many times you’ve used your assets.
• Licenses are valid worldwide—there are no geographic restrictions.
• Truly unlimited distribution—there’s no limit on merchandising, print, broadcast, OTT or feature films*.  Assets can also be used for political campaigns.
• Includes up to $1,000,000 indemnification for both the user and the business*.
• License covers usage across a team or company for both internal and commercial projects.

*Some plans come with restrictions on these licensing terms so make sure that you are signed up to the plan that best meets your needs, now and in the future.

• All licenses are royalty-free in perpetuity — you’ll never have to pay royalty fees to keep your license.
• Unlimited projects — there’s no need to track how many times you’ve used your assets.
• Licenses are valid worldwide—there are no geographic restrictions.
• Includes up to $20,000 indemnification for the individual license holder*.
• License covers usage by the individual for both personal and commercial projects.

A few restrictions on the Individual license include:

• Assets cannot be used for TV, broadcast, streaming, OTT productions, or feature films
• Assets cannot be used in political campaigns
• The license and raw assets can not be transferred to any other user or organization.

*Some plans come with restrictions on these licensing terms so make sure that you are signed up to the plan that best meets your needs, now and in the future.

Assets licensed to a business include usage rights for your teams' seat holders, along with indemnification for your entity or company. You’re covered for up to $1M in indemnification and truly unlimited distribution. Your downloads can be shared across a team, department, or even entire company, depending on the teams who are covered in the license agreement.

Assets licensed to an individual provide legal coverage and usage rights for the individual license holder only. Standalone stock media files licensed to an individual cannot be shared with others. While you can share your finished projects, you do not have the rights to distribute the underlying, original stock media assets or project files.

A Storyblocks license guarantees that any and all content use, as provided for in the contract, will not infringe on the intellectual property rights of any third party. We’ll bet our own money on it.

If claims do arise, we’ll help handle the legal claims for you and ensure you’re covered for legal payout up to your indemnification limit.

We try to keep our licenses as restriction-free as possible, but we do have a few limitations. We've highlighted some of the most important ones below:

• You can’t re-sell or re-license any of our stock files.
• You cannot use our stock files in a way that encourages violence or for unlawful purposes.
• You cannot use our stock files as logos or trademarks.
• If there’s a recognizable person or property in one of our images or videos, we’ll clearly indicate whether that content has been “Model Released” or “Property Released.” A release means that the model or property owner gave permission for their likeness to be used in commercial projects. If you don’t see a release indicated, you can probably still use the content, but you need to get written permission from the model or property owner to be fully covered.
• You cannot use our stock files as or as part of an NFT
• You cannot use our stock files to train AI or machine learning models, or as part of projects that are created entirely by AI platforms
• You cannot upload or share music and audio files to digital streaming platforms (eg. Spotify) or sharing platforms.
• You cannot use assets in campaigns that may be considered ‘sensitive use’ or potentially offensive.  
• You cannot stockpile assets for use after your Storyblocks subscription ends.  The Individual license only covers assets in campaigns or projects that are published during an active Storyblocks subscription.

Check out our entire Individual License and Business License for the full language and details on additional limitations.

Time to talk to our sales team. We’ll work with you to make sure everything’s covered.

Of course! Here you can find the full Individual License Agreement and full Business License Agreement.