What is Royalty Free?

Royalty Free Stock Photography is a concept whereby the end user of the images pays a single one time license fee to use an image and does not have to pay any additional royalty for repeated use of the images. The buyer does not own the copyright of the images (it remains the property of the photographer) but they have bought a license granting them the right to use the images legally without further payments or interruption from the seller as long as the use complies with the terms and conditions of the licensing agencies End User Agreement. While the licensee of the image can offer the image for resale or transferr rights to use it to another Royalty Free Licensing does offer designers a wide range of benefits; mainly lower pricing and convenience.

While the licensee of the image has the right to use the image without further cost beyond the initial licensing fee the model does maintain a level of protection in that the End User License Agreement (EULA) issued by all Royalty Free Stock Agencies utilized by CG for distribution of our images contain contractual clauses such as these:

Use an Image with pornographic, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful or immoral content or in such a manner that it infringes upon any third party's trademark or intellectual property.

Use an Image in a way that places a person in the photo in a bad light or depicts them in a way that they may find offensive- this includes pornography, tobacco ads, religious and political endorsements, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful or immoral content.

If you shoot TFP with CG some of the images created at that shoot will be offered as Royalty Free Stock. However if the above protections are not included in the EULA of a specific agency then CG will not distribute images through their service. As a model should you ever find an image created by CG in use and believe its use to violate the model protection clauses of the licensing agencies EULA contact / / /. and we will investigate it immediately and if the user is found to be in violation of the EULA all legal proceedings to cease the use and recover damages will be initiated.