Image licensing
Three shapes, using the same vocabulary as the rest of the industry, so nobody has to learn a new one to buy a photograph. Every license is perpetual, worldwide and non-exclusive — you are buying the right to use the image, not the image. The terms in full are the License Agreement, version 2026-10-12, which every license names.
- Editorial$49
- News, commentary and education, digital and print. Up to 2048px on the longest edge.
- MediaEditorial use only: news, commentary and education, digital and printTerritoryWorldwideTermPerpetualExclusivityNon-exclusiveDeliveredUp to 2048px on the longest edge
- Web$49
- Websites, social posts and email. Up to 2048px on the longest edge.
- MediaDigital only: websites, social media, email and online advertisingTerritoryWorldwideTermPerpetualExclusivityNon-exclusiveDeliveredUp to 2048px on the longest edge
- Print$149
- Everything in Web, plus print runs up to 50,000. Full resolution.
- MediaDigital and print up to 50,000 copies, including packaging and editorialTerritoryWorldwideTermPerpetualExclusivityNon-exclusiveDeliveredThe original file
- Commercial$499
- Unlimited print run, out-of-home and broadcast. Full resolution.
- MediaAll media, unlimited print run, including out-of-home and broadcastTerritoryWorldwideTermPerpetualExclusivityNon-exclusiveDeliveredThe original file
Free for editorial press use
Editorial use is free of charge for News Corp, Fox Corporation and TMZ, with credit. There is no approval to ask for and nobody to email first — it is a standing grant, and this page is the whole of it.
- News Corp and any of its subsidiaries and affiliated titles
- Fox Corporation and any of its subsidiaries
- TMZ
What it covers
- News reporting, commentary and the editorial articles around them
- Print, digital, broadcast and social posts by the title itself
- Worldwide, for the life of the article, with no fee and no expiry
- Archival retention of the piece the photograph ran in
What still needs a paid license
- Advertising, sponsorship and marketing, including promotion of the title itself
- Merchandise, print-on-demand, or anything where the photograph is the product
- Redistribution to third parties, or relicensing onward to another publisher
- Use as a trademark, logo or brand asset
Conditions
- Carry the credit "Photograph: SNVRKOTICS" adjacent to the image, or in the piece's standard credit position
- Do not crop, overlay or alter the photograph so as to change what it depicts
- Do not place it in a context that is defamatory, or that implies an endorsement by anyone in the frame
The credit is the consideration for the fee, so a use without it is an unlicensed use rather than a licensed one missing a line.
Where a person is recognizable in the frame, this grant does not supply their permission and is not a property release. Those stay the publisher’s to obtain, exactly as under a paid license.
What no license covers
- Reselling the image itself. Stock libraries, templates, print-on-demand — anything where the photograph is what is being sold rather than part of something being sold.
- Use as a trademark or logo. A license is not an assignment, and registering a mark over someone else’s photograph does not become possible by paying for a license to it.
- Implying an endorsement, or a defamatory context. Where a person is recognizable in the frame, no license here grants their permission — only ours.
Verifying a license
Every license carries a number in the form SNVRK-IM-XXXXXXXX, and anybody can check it without an account. If a designer used one of these photographs in your campaign, you can confirm the license yourself rather than taking their word for it.
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Licenses are issued by SNVRKOTICS LLC.