EditStock Terms of Use and Licensing

Last updated: September 22, 2026

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and EditStock, LLC, a California limited liability company (“EditStock,” “we,” “us”). They cover your use of editstock.com and any footage, project files, audio, scripts, and other materials you license from us (the “Content”).

For Single User and Multi-User purchases, these Terms are your license. When you place an order, you agree to these Terms. Business Licenses work differently: they are granted only through a separate written agreement signed by EditStock (see Section 2.3).

If you don’t agree to these Terms, please don’t purchase or use the Content.

1. Who Can Buy

1.1 Single User License. Anyone can purchase a Single User License. If you’re under 18, a parent or legal guardian must review and agree to these Terms for you, and is responsible for your use of the Content.

1.2 Multi-User and Business Licenses. If you purchase a Multi-User or Business License, you’re buying on behalf of an organization (a school, company, or other entity). By purchasing, you confirm that you have the authority to accept these Terms for that organization, and the organization is bound by them.

1.3 Accurate information. You agree that the information you give us when ordering is accurate and complete.

2. Licenses

Every license we grant is non-exclusive and non-transferable, and cannot be sublicensed. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved by EditStock and the filmmakers.

2.1 Single User License

A Single User License is for one person and may not be shared with others. It is royalty-free and does not expire.

You may:

Use the Content for editing practice, study, and instruction.
Include your completed edit in your demo reel.
Post your completed edit on your personal website or on video-sharing sites like YouTube or Vimeo, as long as it displays the EditStock credit logo (see Section 5).
Share your completed edit with potential employers and clients as a sample of your work.
Informally credit yourself as “Edited by [your name]” on your reel, résumé, website, and portfolio.

2.2 Multi-User License (Educational)

A Multi-User License is for a school or training program. It is royalty-free and does not expire.

One campus per license. The Content may be used by any number of enrolled students and faculty, on any number of computers, at one physical campus. Schools with multiple campuses need one license per campus.
Enrolled students and faculty only. Users must be currently enrolled, tuition-paying students or faculty of the licensed institution.
How you share it. You may distribute the Content on physical media or on a local server or computers. You may make it available online only through a secure, password-protected system that limits access to enrolled students and faculty.
Students’ completed work. Students may use their own completed edits in the same ways a Single User License allows (Section 2.1).
The school is responsible. The licensing institution is responsible for making sure its students and faculty follow these Terms.

Fully online programs: please contact us before purchasing.

2.3 Business License

Business Licenses are for companies. These Terms are not a Business License: a Business License is granted only through a signed agreement with EditStock. To get started, visit editstock.com/pages/business. A Business License may cover two kinds of use:

AI and product development. Internal research, development, training, pre-training, fine-tuning, testing, evaluation, and benchmarking of software, AI and machine-learning models, and related tools. The licensee owns the models and tools it builds. The Content itself stays on the licensee’s secure systems and never becomes part of the licensee’s product or its output.
Product demonstrations. Showing a commercial product in public, such as in live demos, trade shows, tutorials, marketing, and in-app examples, using projects EditStock has approved for demonstration.

Not every film on our website is available for business use. Only projects whose filmmakers have opted in can be licensed to businesses. Therefore, do not assume that any project you purchased through the online store may be used for Business purposes without a separate license granted by EditStock. We also have additional films, not shown on our website, that can be licensed by contacting us. See Section 4 for more on AI.

These two uses are permitted only under a Business License agreement signed by EditStock. That signed agreement sets the scope, projects, fees, delivery, and return terms, and it controls over these Terms if they conflict.

A Single User or Multi-User License does not permit any business use, including AI training or product demonstration.

2.4 Your license lasts even if a film leaves our catalog

Filmmakers may occasionally remove their films from EditStock. If that happens, any license you already purchased continues under these Terms.

2.5 Tutorials and Online Videos (Single User)

With a Single User License, you may use the Content in free tutorials, vlogs, and other videos you publish online (for example, on YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok), as long as:

The video is free to watch. The Content may not be included in a paid course, membership, subscription, or any other paid product or service.
You credit EditStock by adding a link to EditStock.com in the video description, and by either thanking EditStock in the video or showing the “Footage Provided by EditStock” credit logo included in your download.
You do not make the Content available for download. Do not share, link to, or offer the footage, audio, project files, or any excerpts to your viewers, subscribers, or anyone else.

All other rules in these Terms, including Sections 3 and 4, still apply.

3. What You May Not Do With Any License

These rules protect the filmmakers who share their unreleased work with us. Unless you have a signed Business License that says otherwise, you may not:

Take official credit. You may not claim credit in the original film, including on IMDb or in any official credit list (e.g., “Edited by,” “Directed by,” “Music by”). Informal “Edited by [your name]” on your reel and portfolio is fine (Section 2.1).
Submit to film festivals or enter your edit in any competition as an original work.
Present your edit as the original. Your version must be easy to tell apart from the filmmaker’s version. Don’t present it as the “official version” anywhere.
Use the filmmakers’ names or logos, or those of the cast or crew, in connection with your edit.
Share, sell, or redistribute the Content (raw footage, audio, project files, scripts, or excerpts) in any form, to anyone not covered by your license.
Use the Content in tutorials, courses, or other products or services, paid or free, except free online videos allowed under Section 2.5, or when the entire audience consists of students covered by a Multi-User License.
Use the Content as stock, including as templates, backgrounds, effects elements, or clips in any other library or collection, even if altered.
Use the Content in any other production you distribute, commercially or not, except as allowed in Section 2.5.
Use the Content in a harmful context, including anything defamatory, pornographic, obscene, fraudulent, infringing, or illegal.

If you’d like to do something these Terms don’t allow, contact us. Additional licensing may be available.

4. AI and Machine Learning

EditStock projects are unreleased work by independent filmmakers. Their main concern is that their work not be copied or imitated, so AI use of the Content is permitted only under a signed Business License (Section 2.3).

Companies that want to use EditStock projects for AI or product development can license them under a Business License. These licenses include safeguards for the filmmakers: the Content stays on the licensee’s secure systems, may not appear in the licensee’s output or be made available to its users, may not be used to train a model specifically to memorize or reproduce a film, and may not be used to create output that copies a film or substitutes for it. Contact us to discuss a Business License.

Without a signed Business License, no one may scrape, crawl, mine, or otherwise collect the Content, previews, or any data from editstock.com, by automated or manual means, or use any of it to train, fine-tune, test, or improve any AI or machine-learning model, system, or tool.

5. Credit

Any completed work you share publicly must display the EditStock credit logo (included in every download) at the beginning or end of the video. The logo is not required when a clip of your edit appears in a montage demo reel. Tutorials and other online videos follow the credit rules in Section 2.5.

6. Samples and Previews

Previews and sample clips on our website are provided only so you can decide whether to license a project. You may not download, copy, screen-capture, publish, or otherwise use them. No license is granted for previews or samples.

7. Ownership

The Content is licensed, not sold. The filmmakers own the copyright in their work, and EditStock holds the rights needed to license it to you. Other than the license described in these Terms, you receive no ownership or other rights in the Content, whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise. You own your creative choices in your edit, but not the underlying Content.

8. Refunds and Exchanges

8.1 Single User and Multi-User Licenses. You may request a refund, or an exchange for another project of equal or lesser value, within 30 days of payment. If you receive a refund or exchange, your license to the original Content ends immediately, and you must delete all copies of it.

8.2 Business Licenses. Refunds, returns, and delivery remedies for Business Licenses are governed solely by your signed Business License agreement.

9. Termination

Your license is perpetual unless you violate these Terms. If you do, your license ends immediately and automatically, without notice, and you must stop using and delete all copies of the Content. Sections 3, 4, and 6 through 16 continue to apply after termination.

10. Releases and Clearances

The filmmakers have represented to us that they have the rights needed for the uses these Terms allow. For any use beyond what these Terms expressly allow, you are solely responsible for determining whether additional permissions, releases, or clearances are needed (including from any guild, union, or other representative) and for obtaining them. No EditStock employee or representative can make any promise about clearances beyond what is written in these Terms.

11. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE WEBSITE AND THE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. EDITSTOCK DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEBSITE OR THE CONTENT WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, ERROR-FREE, OR UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT FILES WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

12. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EDITSTOCK AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, AND CONTENT PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS, THE WEBSITE, OR THE CONTENT, UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. EDITSTOCK’S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID EDITSTOCK FOR THE LICENSE GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE. EDITSTOCK IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY FAILURE OR DELAY CAUSED BY EVENTS BEYOND ITS REASONABLE CONTROL. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless EditStock, its officers, members, employees, contractors, affiliates, and licensors (including the filmmakers who provide the Content) from and against any claims, losses, liabilities, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your breach or alleged breach of these Terms; (b) your use or modification of the Content; (c) your failure to obtain any permission required for a use not expressly allowed by these Terms; or (d) the acts or omissions of anyone using the Content through your license, including, for Multi-User Licenses, your students and faculty.

14. Governing Law, Disputes, and Remedies

14.1 Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.

14.2 Venue. Any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Content will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

14.3 Your remedies. Your remedy for any breach by EditStock is limited to money damages, subject to Section 12. You waive any right to rescind these Terms or to seek an injunction or other equitable relief against EditStock or the distribution of the Content.

14.4 Our remedies. Unauthorized use of the Content causes irreparable harm to EditStock and the filmmakers. EditStock may seek injunctive or other equitable relief to stop any actual or threatened breach, in addition to any other remedies available by law.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We’ll post the updated Terms on this page and change the “Last updated” date. Changes apply to purchases made after the update. Your use of the website after an update means you accept the updated Terms. Changes will not reduce the license rights you purchased before the update.

16. General

Entire agreement and order of precedence. These Terms are the entire agreement between you and EditStock about the Content. If you have a separate written agreement signed by EditStock (such as a Business License), that agreement controls if it conflicts with these Terms. Any summaries of these Terms, such as the “Proper Use & License Terms” sheet included with downloads, are for convenience; these Terms control.
Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your license or these Terms without our written consent. EditStock may assign these Terms.
Severability. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted, and the rest remains in effect.
No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
International use. EditStock makes no representation that the website or Content is appropriate for use outside the United States. If you access the website from elsewhere, you are responsible for complying with local laws.
Third-party links. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of websites linked to or from our website.
Website copyright. The website’s design, text, graphics, and trademarks are owned by or licensed to EditStock and may not be reproduced without permission.

17. Contact

Questions about these Terms or your license? Email support@editstock.com.

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