Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement Product Specific Terms to Adobe General Terms of Use
Effective as of June 18, 2024. Replaces all prior versions.
These Product Specific Terms are incorporated by reference into the Adobe General Terms of Use (“General Terms”) located at www.adobe.com/go/terms and govern your use of the Adobe Stock Services as regards to the upload or submission of any Work to Adobe Stock, except if you are a resident of Germany, the terms at https://www.adobe.com/go/contributorterms_de apply. These Product Specific Terms apply to all Content, photographs, illustrations, vectors, images, templates, 3D assets, videos, and other pictorial or graphic works (collectively and including all associated keywords, descriptions, credits, and captions) that you submit to us or upload to a Website under these Product Specific Terms or any other prior version thereof (“Work(s)).” These Product Specific Terms and the General Terms are collectively referred to as “Terms.” Capitalized terms not defined here have the same meaning as defined in the General Terms. “Website” means our websites and applications that facilitate access to these websites, including but not limited to contributor.stock.adobe.com, fotolia.com, stock.adobe.com, and adobe.com. If you submit Work on behalf of the applicable copyright owner(s), you represent and warrant that you have the authority to, and will, ensure that such copyright owner(s) comply with the Terms where necessary. If you submit Work on behalf of an entity, then the Terms apply to that entity and its affiliates. In such case, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind the entity to the Terms.
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Licenses for Adobe. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, fully-paid, and royalty-free license to use, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, index, translate, and modify the Work for the purposes of operating the Website; presenting, distributing, marketing, promoting, and licensing the Work to users; developing new features and services; archiving the Work; and protecting the Work. We may use the Work for the purposes of marketing and promoting your Work, the Website, our business, and our other products and services, in which case you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, fully-paid, and royalty-free license to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, publicly perform, and translate the Work as needed, and we may compensate you at our discretion as described in section 5 (Payment) below. You also grant us the right, but not the obligation, to use your display name, trademarks, and trade names in connection with our marketing and promotional activities and our license to the Work under the Terms.
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Licenses for Users. You grant us a license to further sublicense our right to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, publicly perform, and translate the Work on a non-exclusive, worldwide, and perpetual basis in any media or embodiment. We may sublicense Works pursuant to a written or electronic agreement between us and a user (“User Agreement”). The license to users may include the right to modify and create derivative works based upon the Work, including but not limited to the right to sell or distribute for sale the Work or any reproductions thereof if incorporated or together with or onto any item of merchandise or other work of authorship, in any media or format now or hereafter known, provided that such users’ use of the modified Work is limited solely to the same uses permitted with respect to the original Work. For clarity, we may allow users and other authorized third parties (such as, without limitation, marketing consultants or service providers) to post or share the Work onto social media sites or other third-party websites, subject to any restrictions imposed by a User Agreement. We offer an Application Program Interface (“API”) program that allows our partners to showcase and to facilitate sales of the Work.