By creators, for creators
The Integrated Creative License (ICL) is a license—more accurately, a collection of licenses—for the distribution of royalty-free materials. It was created to provide certain rights to both copyright holders and end users in an easily accessible manner.
Royalty-free
No additional costs for end users of materials after initial acquirement.
Creator protection
Creators of materials maintain control over where, how, and by whom their materials are distributed.
Commercial use OK
End users can freely monetize their integrated works without hurdle.
Purpose
The purpose of the Integrated Creative License is to provide an easy and accessible way for creators to apply royalty-free licensing to their work. Currently, it is rather common for creators, asset stores/libraries and other providers to distribute their materials under custom terms. This does not necessarily have to be a problem since it is the right of the copyright holder to license their work under any terms they see fit.
However, the result of this is that there are currently many similar yet differently-named, scattered licenses all over the world-wide web (and beyond). This can be rather confusing for creators/providers of materials who wish to apply royalty-free licensing to their work.
That’s why the ICL was created—to provide an easy go-to for royalty-free asset creators.
What the ICL is:
- A clear, easy-to-understand (and use!) license for royalty-free materials.
- A way to protect copyright and distribution rights, while still giving end users creative and commercial freedoms.
What the ICL is not:
- A Creative Commons license. Creative Commons allows redistribution of the original, raw materials; the ICL, under most circumstances, does not.
- A free software/open source license. The ICL is mainly intended for creative materials and assets. While software developers are of course free to license their software and/or source code under any terms they see fit, we do not consider the ICL fit for this purpose, and its use for software/code licensing is therefore not recommended.
- A protection against artificial intelligence. This is mostly due to the current situation where many copyrighted materials are used for the training of AI models regardless of permission from the copyright holder. We simply cannot guarantee these protections in the current technological landscape, and we do not have the power and/or financial assets to protect creators in these instances. However, we do encourage copyright holders to enforce their rights whenever the situation arises.
Check out our license flavors!
We currently provide four different flavors of licensing, depending on the wishes of material creators.