Unsplash license Unsplash photos are covered by the Unsplash license. The Unsplash license prevents users from using photos from Unsplash in a similar or competing service. While it gives downloaders the right to "copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash", the Unsplash terms of service prohibit selling unaltered copies, including selling the photos as prints or printed on physical goods. Content under the Unsplash license cannot be published under a
Creative Commons license without additional permissions from the original authors. In December 2019, Unsplash for Brands was launched, where advertisers can share branded images on Unsplash.
Public domain Before June 2017, photos uploaded to Unsplash were made available under the
Creative Commons zero license, which is a
public domain equivalent license and a
waiver, which irrevocably allowed individuals to freely reuse, repurpose and
remix photos for their own projects. In June 2017, Unsplash changed the license under which they made their content available to their own license, the Unsplash License, which imposes some additional restrictions. Around 200,000 images were lost to the public domain. It is not possible to find which images had been available as CC0 prior to the license change. At the time of the license change,
Creative Commons Director
Ryan Merkley asked Unsplash to "either a) properly mark all the works shared using CC0 and/or b) make available a full archive of the CC0 works so they can be shared on a platform that supports open licensing". ==Other products==