How can I use stock images?

Question

Photobanks

Interested in how I can use stock images.
I can't afford to buy directly from shutterstock, so I use intermediary sites. What can the copyright holders charge me for using these images? In fact, they bought them (apparently as part of some kind of subscription) and handed them over to me? Yes, and I also paid for them, although less than what the site requires.
Can I use these images in printing? Selling products with these images?

Answer 1

You are not buying the image, but the rights to use the image. And the right can be without the possibility of its transfer (resale).
The right without restrictions is more expensive. As a rule, they buy limited rights, which are quite enough for the specific purpose of using the photo.
Whether the seller can resell images to you depends on the license. As a rule, it does not.
As a rule, you can resell only as part of the finished product (website, book), and not the original image.
Moreover, the same image may be sold under different licenses. Under one license, you can use an image for one purpose, but not for another.
Better ask the guys who do it - the photographers working at Shutterstock.
zastavkin.com/forum/index.php
They ate the dog on licenses.
Since Shutterstock offers various options for selling photos, including quite inexpensive ones, I don’t think that Shutterstock even has a license to resell photos bought from them - why should they compete with themselves.
To get started - read carefully the license agreement and the rules of the site where you buy. How do they justify their right to sell photos from Shutterstock.
Specifically, about printing - a cheap license on Shutter is for the web, only for the web. And for polygraphy - more expensive license is necessary.

Answer 2

well, you don’t have to ask stockers, they are all m#$%ki, almost to a single one - it’s enough to read the forum with wet dreams about extended licenses,
but the problem of licensing is
the simplest and most understandable license - just about your questions - Envato, the rest need ask, Shater has recently greatly weakened the conditions (for example, it allows you to reuse the cartoon in all projects - before that it was a long time - one picture - one project / use), there is also a Deposit with very cheap extensions and, in my opinion, almost printing on T-shirts is allowed there in the usual way, in short - study
well and do not forget about the API for photo prints, many stocks have