What does the nature images licence permit? – Cheap Nature Images

Every file is three dollars and buys a licence to that one image. There are no credits, no plans and no tiers.

Permitted

Worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, commercial. In practice that means:

• Websites, web apps, native apps and software interfaces.
• Print of any kind, at any run: brochures, books, packaging, posters, signage.
• Advertising, online and offline, with no impression cap.
• Client work, where the finished deliverable is covered.
• Products you sell, where the image is part of a design.
• Internal use: decks, reports, documentation, training material.

Editing is unrestricted. Crop, recolour, composite, cut out, distort.

Prohibited

• Redistributing the file: another library, a marketplace, a free-image site, an asset pack, a template, a theme.
• Print-on-demand where the picture is the whole product.
• Machine-learning training data, at any scale.
• Anything unlawful, defamatory, or presenting a real identifiable place or person misleadingly.

The two grey areas

Sub-licensing. You cannot pass your licence to someone else. If a second party needs the original file for their own work, they buy their own. At three dollars this is not a hardship and it removes every argument.

Bulk automated use. Buying files one at a time for a project is fine at any number. Systematically acquiring a large portion of the catalogue to republish, mirror or index it is redistribution, whatever it is called. If your use involves hundreds of files and a script, write first.

Attribution

Not required, anywhere, for any permitted use. You may credit if you want to; it changes nothing about what you are allowed to do.

What you are not buying

Copyright. The photographer keeps it. You are buying permission, broadly drawn and permanently granted, which for almost every commercial purpose is indistinguishable from ownership and costs three dollars instead of a commission.

The one thing it is not is exclusive. Somebody else may licence the same image. If that matters to your project, read the exclusivity page before you build anything on a specific frame.

How long it lasts

Perpetual means perpetual. The licence does not expire, does not renew, and is not tied to an account that could lapse. If this site disappeared tomorrow, the permission you bought would still stand for the work you had already made.

That is worth more than it sounds. Subscription licences typically survive cancellation for work already published, but reconstructing two years later exactly what you were entitled to, from an account you no longer have, is a genuinely unpleasant afternoon. Here the receipt is the whole record.