Royalty-Free License Details

A license designed to stay out of your way

When you spend a credit on an image from Verse Zine Royalty Free (“Verse Zine,” “we,” “us”), you’re buying a commercial, worldwide, perpetual license for that specific asset—not a one-time, narrow-use permission.

This page explains, in plain language, what that license does and doesn’t allow.

For the full, legally binding version, see our Terms & Conditions.

‍

1. WHAT YOUR LICENSE INCLUDES

For each asset you license (the “Asset”), Verse Zine grants you a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to:

Use in commercial and personal projects
- Websites, landing pages, blogs
- Social media posts and ads
- Decks, presentations, and internal documents
- Book interiors and covers
- Product packaging and brand storytelling collateral
Transform and creatively rework the image
- Crop, resize, recolor, overlay, composite with other elements, and otherwise modify the Asset as part of your own creative work.
- Use the Asset inside larger layouts, designs, or artworks where it becomes one piece of a bigger whole.
Use for client work (project-based)
- You may incorporate licensed Assets into a finished project for a client (for example: a campaign visual, deck, or website you design for them).
- Your client can use that finished project as delivered, but does not receive a separate, standalone license to the raw Asset for reuse outside that project unless they have their own Verse Zine account and credits.
No limits on audience size
- There are no caps on impressions, views, or print runs for your licensed use of an Asset, as long as you follow the restrictions below.

In short: once you’ve paid the credit for an Asset, you can keep using it forever in line with this License—even if you later cancel your subscription or free plan—while your account remains in good standing under our Terms.

‍

2. WHAT YOU CANNOT DO

To protect the library (and the value of your subscription), there are a few hard lines.

You may not:

2.1. Resell or redistribute the Asset itself

Don’t sell, share, or distribute the standalone file (PNG or any other format), whether original or modified.
Don’t upload Assets, packs of Assets, or derivative files to:
- other stock / asset libraries
- free download sites
- NFT marketplaces
- “resource” bundles or giveaways

Your license is for use in your own creative work, not for building your own asset library for others.

‍

2.2. Use Assets as the main value of a product

You cannot use an Asset as the primary value in:

Print-on-demand products (posters, art prints, wall art, t-shirts, mugs, etc.) sold to multiple customers where the Verse Zine image is the main draw.
Digital products or templates (website themes, design kits, Canva/Figma/PowerPoint templates, etc.) where end users can easily extract or reuse the Asset.

Using Assets inside a product or layout is fine; using them as the entire product is not.

‍

2.3. Use in logos, trademarks, or service marks

You cannot incorporate any Asset into a logo, trademark, service mark, or similar brand identifier.
This protects you (and us) from messy conflicts when other subscribers use the same Asset.

‍

2.4. Harmful, hateful, or illegal uses

You may not use Assets in any way that:

is defamatory, harassing, or abusive,
promotes hate or violence,
is obscene or exploitative, or
violates applicable law in your jurisdiction.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate access for egregious misuse.

‍

3. AI TRAINING, STYLE PROFILES, AND DERIVATIVE SYSTEMS

Verse Zine exists because of generative AI—but the library itself is not a free training set.

You may not:

use Assets (or crops/variants of them) to train, fine-tune, or improve any AI or machine-learning model,
use Assets to create LoRAs, custom models, or style transfers,
use Assets as moodboards, style seeds, or personalization profiles in services like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, or any equivalent “reference / style code / profile” system,
upload Assets to any third-party tool with the intent of reproducing or cloning Verse Zine’s look, style codes, or trained behaviors.

Using Assets purely as visuals inside your finished, human-directed projects (sites, decks, books, etc.) is allowed.

Using them as fuel to build or refine other image-generation systems is not.

‍

4. SINGLE-USER LICENSE & SHARING INSIDE COMPANIES

Your license is personal to you (the account holder).

You may:

use Assets in work you create as an employee or contractor at a company of any size;
deliver finished work that includes Assets to your client or employer, who can then use that finished work.

You may not:

share your login or account with other people;
place original or lightly modified Assets into:
- shared company drives, DAM systems, or internal libraries, or
- any other shared folder (cloud or local) intended as a “resource pool” for multiple people to pull from;
present Assets as if your entire team or company holds a blanket license to them.

If other team members need access to the same Assets, they should:

create their own Verse Zine account and
license the Assets with their own credits.

If your company needs broad, shared access across a large team or wants to ingest Verse Zine assets into internal libraries, please contact us about enterprise or agency licensing rather than relying on individual-user subscriptions.

‍

5. AGENCY & BROADCAST / DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS

The standard Verse Zine license is designed for individual creators, freelancers, and in-house designers, not for agencies ingesting a library for repeated client resale or large-scale broadcast packaging.

At launch:

Standard subscriptions do not include:
- full agency rights (for reuse of the same Assets across many different clients) or
- extended broadcast / distribution rights where Assets become a recurring part of large TV, film, or major game distribution pipelines beyond normal project-based usage.

If you:

are an agency or studio that wants to build recurring campaigns across multiple clients using Verse Zine Assets, or
need explicit, extended rights for TV, film, streaming, or large-scale game distribution beyond project-by-project use,

please contact us so we can discuss custom / agency licensing options.

(Note: basic use of Assets inside a specific credited project is covered by your individual license; expanded studio-wide or multi-client reuse is not.)

‍

6. PERPETUAL USE VS. SERVICE ACCESS

When we say “Commercial use, worldwide, perpetual”, we mean:

once you’ve licensed an Asset with your credits, you may continue to use that Asset in line with this License forever, even if you later cancel your plan.

However:

Your ongoing access to the website, your account, and remaining credits depends on your subscription status and compliance with our Terms & Conditions.
In cases of severe abuse (fraud, harassment, systematic policy violations), we may suspend or close accounts and revoke access to the Service or future downloads.
Even if your account is closed, we do not retroactively revoke the license for Assets you properly licensed and used prior to the violation, unless required by law or specific abuse (for example, uses that themselves violate this License).

If Verse Zine ever needs to shut down or substantially change the Service, we will make reasonable efforts to give active users a chance to re-download previously licensed Assets.

‍

7. ATTRIBUTION

For most uses, attribution is optional.

If your project includes a formal credits section (such as in film, TV, or video games), you must include:

Imagery licensed from Verse Zine (versezine.com).

We also appreciate (but do not require) optional shout-outs or links in project pages, case studies, or social posts.

‍

8. QUESTIONS OR EDGE CASES

If you’re unsure whether a planned use is allowed under this License—

especially for:

broadcast / streaming distribution,
large product runs where the Asset is highly prominent, or
a complex client/agency arrangement—

please email nathan@subcreation.design with a short description of your use.

We’re happy to clarify, and where needed, we can talk about extended or enterprise licensing instead of leaving you to guess.

Royalty-Free License