commercial use
Not personal purposes
Commercial use is the use of something—a product, image, software, property—for business purposes or financial gain, as opposed to personal, educational, or nonprofit purposes.
The distinction matters for licensing and legal rights: The photo is free for personal use but requires a fee for commercial use.
Many licenses explicitly restrict or separately price commercial use.
- licensingGranting official permission
- patentsExclusive rights to inventions
- licensing agreementsContracts granting usage rights
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- for saleAvailable for buying
end user · contracts · copyright · royalties · trade · branding · brand name · intellectual property · monetization · franchising · retail · wholesale · for-profit · profit motive · terms of service · usage rights · fine print · manufacturing
- water usesdrinking, bathing, showering, laundry, washing
- image rightsphoto rights, image rights, copyright, reproduction rights, usage rights
- publicity rightsimage rights, likeness, merchandising rights, celebrity endorsements, celebrity endorsement
- camphorcamphor, camphor oil, Cinnamomum camphora
- photo collectionsphotographs, photo album, photo galleries, snapshots, digital images
- licensinglicense agreement, licensing board, application fee, license renewal, license fee
commercial usenon-commercial use
Activity lacking profit motive
personal use · educational use · recreational use · domestic use