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Royalty-Free Images
The "free" in royalty-free doesnot mean there is no cost for the license, but insteadrefers to being able to freely use the image without payingadditional royalties. A small-business owner, forexample, may opt to pay a one-time fee for RF imagesfor his website.
Likewise, people ask, does royalty free mean free for commercial use?
You pay once and the commercial can play once aweek or 50 times a week, for 3 months or for 5 years. You pay onceand you use it for as long as you want. The term“Royalty Free” is confusing for morereasons than one. In fact it simply means “Freeof Royalty”.
Similarly, is royalty free the same as copyright free?
In the end, royalty free means a licensee can usea work without owning the copyright or payingroyalties on a per use basis. Copyright free meansthe copyright itself has expired or a second party hasacquired the right to use that work.
Royalty-free (RF) material subject tocopyright or other intellectual property rights may be used withoutthe need to pay royalties or license fees for each use, pereach copy or volume sold or some time period of use orsales.