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Stock image licences exclude AI training, so training is always a separate licence, and a model release may not cover it

Getty Images, iStock, Shutterstock, Adobe (enterprise terms), Alamy and Freepik all forbid customers to use licensed images for machine learning or AI unless separately authorised. Training is sold as its own product: Shutterstock's dataset licence permits model training only and bars commercial use of the images, and it sells AI data from more than 640 million images on enquiry, as Depositphotos does from more than 330 million assets; Shutterstock also invites outside libraries through a Data Partner Network. Getty adds that it does not warrant that model-released people consented to AI uses.

Dated 19 Oct 2026Source checked 19 Oct 2026Basis: strong

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“Unless explicitly authorized in a Getty Images invoice, sales order confirmation or license agreement, you may not use content (including any caption information, keywords or other metadata associated with content) for any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence purposes, or for any technologies designed or intended for the identification of natural persons.”
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