Licensing terms
Borne offers two categories of imagery, licensed directly with no third-party agency in between: original photography produced by Borne, and public-domain works whose copyright has expired. Provenance for each asset is recorded and available on request. Two licences are available.
Public-domain note. For faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public-domain artworks, no new copyright arises under US law (Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel, 1999); these are supplied on that basis. Where an asset depicts trademarks, identifiable people or private property, it is marked editorial use only and is not cleared for commercial use without the appropriate releases.
Single image — $18
Royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide licence for one image.
- ✓ Web, social, editorial and commercial use
- ✓ Print up to 500,000 copies
- ✓ Unlimited duration, no renewal fees
- ✓ Modification and derivative works permitted
- ✗ Not for resale as stock, or redistribution as a standalone image
Full database — $17,500
All 980 assets, for machine-learning training and research.
- ✓ Training and fine-tuning of machine-learning models
- ✓ Internal research, evaluation and benchmarking
- ✓ Synthetic and derivative data generation
- ✓ Perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide
- ✓ Full resolution, unwatermarked, with complete metadata
- ✗ Not for resale or redistribution as a competing dataset
Attribution
Attribution is not required under either licence, but is appreciated as “Borne” or bornesociety.com.
Watermarks
Images displayed on this site carry a visible watermark. Licensed delivery is always full-resolution and unwatermarked. Removing the watermark from a browsing copy is not a licence, and is a breach of copyright.
Custom terms
Exclusivity, subset licensing, ongoing delivery or bespoke indemnities — write to elliot.osborne.ai@gmail.com.