COMMISSION TERMS
FormerlyHuman Commission License
Effective Date: July 17, 2026
This Commission License applies to custom images, comics, videos, character sets, and other commissioned content created by FormerlyHuman.
This license applies only to custom commissions. Premade products purchased through the FormerlyHuman store are governed by the separate FormerlyHuman Content License.
By purchasing, accepting, downloading, or using a completed commission, the person who ordered the commission—the “Commissioner”—agrees to this Commission License. “Creator” means FormerlyHuman.
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Final Deliverables
This license applies only to the final files specifically included in the accepted commission quote and delivered to the Commissioner.
Unless specifically included in writing, the following are not part of the licensed deliverables: unused concepts or generations, rejected drafts, alternate versions, prompts or production instructions, source files, project files, editing timelines, layered files, work-in-progress material, or upscaling or generation settings.
The Creator retains full control over all drafts, source materials, production files, and unused material created during the commission process.
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License Granted to the Commissioner
After the commission has been paid for in full, the Creator grants the Commissioner a personal-use, non-exclusive, worldwide, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, continuing license to possess, view, privately use, and publicly display the final commissioned work as permitted below.
This is a license to use the completed work. It is not a sale or transfer of copyright, intellectual-property ownership, source materials, or production rights.
The commission is not a “work made for hire” unless a separate written agreement signed by the Creator specifically states otherwise.
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Permitted Personal Uses
The Commissioner may save and view the final files on their personal devices, keep personal backup copies, use images as personal wallpapers, avatars, profile pictures, or banners, make a reasonable number of physical copies for personal display, share the completed work privately with friends or family, post the completed work publicly on personal websites, galleries, forums, and social-media accounts, include the work in a personal portfolio or collection, post the work on monetized social-media accounts or ad-supported channels, post the work as part of their ordinary content on subscriber-supported pages, crop, resize, compress, or reformat the work as reasonably necessary for posting, and add captions, borders, music, commentary, or simple presentation elements.
These permissions apply only to the final delivered work and remain subject to the restrictions in this license.
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Monetized Accounts and Subscriber Pages
The Commissioner may display the completed work on an account that earns advertising revenue, accepts tips, offers memberships, or is otherwise monetized.
The work may also be posted as part of the Commissioner’s normal output on a subscriber-supported page, provided that the commission is not sold as a standalone product, the original downloadable files are not distributed to subscribers, access to the commission is not marketed as the primary benefit of a paid membership tier, the Commissioner does not claim to have created the artwork, video, comic, or other commissioned material, the work is not licensed to another person or business, and the work is not used to advertise or promote an unrelated commercial product or service.
Incidental revenue generated by displaying the commission on the Commissioner’s own account is permitted. Broader commercial exploitation requires a separate written commercial license.
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Public Sharing and Credit
When publicly posting the commission, the Commissioner must provide reasonable credit to FormerlyHuman whenever the platform and format allow it.
Preferred credit: Created by FormerlyHuman — formerlyhuman.com
A link to the FormerlyHuman website or official social profile should be included when practical.
Credit does not need to be placed directly over the image or video. It may appear in the caption, description, accompanying post, end credits, or another reasonably visible location.
The Commissioner may identify themselves as the person who commissioned or owns the depicted original character, but may not claim that they personally created the commissioned artwork, comic, animation, or video.
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Prohibited Uses
Unless the Creator gives separate written permission, the Commissioner may not sell the commissioned work, resell copies of the commissioned files, offer the files as a paid or free download, upload the original files to a file-sharing, stock-media, or asset-distribution service, include the work in a downloadable membership reward, license, sublicense, transfer, or assign the work to another person or organization, use the work in merchandise offered for sale, use the work on book covers, album covers, commercial packaging, or paid products, use the work in paid advertising or sponsored promotional campaigns, use the work as a company logo, product identity, or business trademark, mint, sell, or associate the work with an NFT, token, blockchain product, or similar digital asset, submit the work to a stock-image, stock-video, template, or asset marketplace, use the work to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or build an artificial-intelligence model or dataset, sell prompts, workflows, source material, or reproductions derived from the work, remove an existing Creator signature or watermark, falsely claim authorship of the work, register the work as solely created or owned by the Commissioner, or use the work for impersonation, fraud, harassment, defamation, or other unlawful activity.
The Commissioner may not distribute the original full-quality files simply because the commission has already been displayed publicly. Public display permission is not permission to redistribute the underlying downloadable product.
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Editing and Derivative Versions
The Commissioner may make minor presentation changes, including cropping, resizing, adding captions, adding music, combining clips into a personal showcase, or placing the work into a personal layout.
The Commissioner may not substantially alter the work in a way that misrepresents the Creator’s original work, creates illegal, defamatory, or deceptive content, removes required attribution, suggests endorsement by the Creator, violates the rights of another person, or is sold, licensed, or commercially distributed.
Substantial edits, remixes, continuations, or derivative products intended for commercial use require advance written permission.
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Ownership and Retained Rights
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Creator retains all rights, title, and interest the Creator may lawfully hold in the final commissioned work, human-authored editing, selection, arrangement, sequencing, compositing, and presentation, original writing, dialogue, descriptions, layouts, and graphic design, production methods and workflows, prompts and instructions, source and project files, unused drafts and alternate material, and the FormerlyHuman name, branding, website, and visual identity.
No ownership rights are transferred to the Commissioner except through a separate written agreement signed by the Creator.
Because some commissions may involve artificial-intelligence-assisted production, this license does not promise that every individual component of the finished work is independently eligible for copyright registration or protection in every jurisdiction. Regardless of copyright status, the Commissioner agrees to the contractual restrictions contained in this license.
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Commissioner-Owned Characters and Materials
The Commissioner retains ownership of any pre-existing original character, story, logo, photograph, likeness, or other material that the Commissioner legally owns and provides for the commission.
The Creator does not acquire ownership of the Commissioner’s pre-existing intellectual property merely by completing the commission.
The Commissioner grants the Creator a limited permission to use submitted materials as reasonably necessary to evaluate the request, create the commissioned work, make approved revisions, deliver the final files, and maintain reasonable business and transaction records.
The Creator may display the finished commission in a portfolio or promotional context as described below, but may not claim ownership of the Commissioner’s pre-existing original character or personal identity.
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Commissioner Responsibilities
The Commissioner confirms that they have the necessary permission to provide and request the use of any submitted photographs, personal likenesses, original characters, logos, designs, written material, reference artwork, or copyrighted or trademarked material.
The Commissioner is responsible for ensuring that their requested use of submitted material does not violate another person’s rights.
Accepting a commission request does not mean that the Creator guarantees the Commissioner owns or has permission to use every submitted reference.
The Commissioner agrees to be responsible for claims resulting from materials they provided without authorization or from uses of the completed work that violate this license.
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Third-Party Characters and Properties
A commission may occasionally depict or reference characters, settings, costumes, trademarks, or other material owned by a third party.
Neither the Creator nor the Commissioner receives ownership of third-party intellectual property through the commission.
Permission to possess or personally display the completed commission does not grant permission to commercially exploit a third party’s character, brand, likeness, or other protected material.
The Creator may decline any request involving third-party intellectual property and does not guarantee that a commissioned work will be accepted by a marketplace, platform, payment provider, publisher, or rights holder.
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Creator’s Portfolio and Promotional Rights
Unless the accepted quote identifies the commission as Private, the Creator may display the completed work for portfolio use, website galleries, social-media posts, commission examples, promotional trailers, advertisements for the Creator’s services, behind-the-scenes or process discussions, and demonstrations of the Creator’s work.
This permission does not allow the Creator to reveal private customer information, private conversations, payment information, or the Commissioner’s legal identity without permission.
If the commission is based on a private individual’s likeness, the Creator will not publicly identify that person by name without their permission.
The Creator will not sell the Commissioner’s distinctive pre-existing original character as a separate character asset or falsely claim ownership of that character.
The Creator remains free to create other works involving similar species, transformation types, themes, settings, poses, genres, or general concepts. A commission does not reserve a broad idea or concept exclusively for the Commissioner.
Any additional privacy or exclusivity terms must appear in the accepted quote or another written agreement.
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Non-Exclusivity
Unless an accepted quote specifically includes paid exclusivity, commissions are non-exclusive.
The Commissioner does not receive exclusive ownership of a transformation concept, species or hybrid type, pose, setting, visual theme, general story premise, character archetype, or production technique.
The Creator may accept other commissions involving similar general concepts, provided that the Creator does not improperly copy the Commissioner’s protected pre-existing original character or confidential material.
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Artificial-Intelligence-Assisted Production
The Commissioner understands that FormerlyHuman commissions may be created through a combination of artificial-intelligence-assisted generation, human creative direction, prompt development, image selection, editing and retouching, compositing, sequencing, animation, video generation, upscaling, color correction, graphic design, writing, and layout work.
The Commissioner accepts this production method and agrees not to misrepresent the work as being produced entirely through a different process.
The Commissioner is purchasing the Creator’s service, creative direction, production work, selection, editing, and final delivered media—not ownership of any artificial-intelligence model, software, workflow, or production system used to create it.
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Commercial Licensing
No general commercial rights are included with a standard commission.
A Commissioner who wants to use the work for merchandise, advertising, publishing, resale, branding, commercial distribution, client work, or another business purpose must request a separate commercial license.
Commercial permission is not automatic and may be approved or declined at the Creator’s discretion.
Any commercial license must be provided in writing and may require an additional licensing fee, defined media and platforms, geographic restrictions, a defined license term, revenue or distribution limits, additional credit requirements, third-party rights clearance, or other project-specific conditions.
Verbal discussions or informal messages do not create commercial rights unless the Creator clearly confirms those rights in writing.
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Payment, Refunds, and License Activation
This license becomes active only after the commission has been paid for in full.
Previewing a draft or receiving a partial delivery does not grant permission to publish, use, or distribute that material.
If the commission is fully refunded, this license terminates, the Commissioner must stop using the commissioned work, the Commissioner must remove public copies where reasonably possible, and the Commissioner may retain transaction records but may not continue using the creative files.
A partial refund does not change the license unless the Creator confirms the change in writing.
Payment, revision, cancellation, delivery, and refund terms are also governed by the accepted commission quote and the FormerlyHuman Commission Terms.
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Violations and Termination
The Creator may terminate this license if the Commissioner materially violates its terms.
When reasonably possible, the Creator may first provide written notice and an opportunity to correct the violation. Serious violations—including resale, intentional mass redistribution, fraudulent authorship claims, or unlawful use—may result in immediate termination.
After termination, the Commissioner must stop using the commissioned work, stop distributing or displaying it, remove public posts where reasonably possible, remove downloadable copies made available to other people, and stop all monetized or commercial use.
Termination does not prevent the Creator from pursuing other remedies available under applicable law or contract.
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No Platform or Revenue Guarantee
The Creator does not guarantee that a social-media platform will permit the work, a marketplace will accept the work, a channel will qualify for monetization, a post will remain publicly available, a payment provider will permit a particular business model, the work will generate views, subscribers, sales, or income, the work will qualify for copyright or trademark registration, a third-party rights holder will approve a fan-based commission, or every device or software application will support every delivered format.
The Commissioner is responsible for reviewing the rules of any platform where the work will be used.
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No Endorsement
Public display of a commission does not mean that the Creator endorses the Commissioner, the Commissioner represents FormerlyHuman, FormerlyHuman sponsors the Commissioner’s account, the Creator approves every statement made alongside the work, or the Commissioner has authority to act on behalf of FormerlyHuman.
Neither party may falsely suggest an official partnership, sponsorship, employment relationship, or endorsement by the other.
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Entire Agreement and Conflicting Terms
This Commission License, the accepted quote, and the applicable FormerlyHuman Commission Terms form the agreement governing the commission.
If the accepted quote includes a specific written term that conflicts with this general license, the specific term in the accepted quote controls for that commission.
The Commissioner’s own purchase-order terms, website terms, messages, or boilerplate language do not modify this license unless the Creator expressly accepts the modification in writing.
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Severability
If any portion of this license is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining portions will continue to apply to the fullest extent permitted by law.
A failure to enforce one provision on one occasion does not waive the right to enforce that provision later.
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Updates to This License
The version of this Commission License in effect when the commission is fully paid applies to that commission unless the Commissioner and Creator agree to different terms in writing.
Future updates to this license do not retroactively reduce rights already granted for a completed and fully paid commission.
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Questions and Permission Requests
Questions about permitted uses, privacy, exclusivity, or commercial licensing may be sent to contact@formerlyhuman.com.
Permission or license changes are valid only when confirmed in writing by FormerlyHuman.